US PRESIDENT Barack Obama plans to donate the $1.4 million (€1m) from his Nobel Peace Prize to helping students, veterans’ families and survivors of Haiti’s earthquake, among others, drawing attention to organisations he said "do extraordinary work".
Obama is giving a total of $750,000 to six groups that help children go to college.
The Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund, for which two former presidents are raising money to rebuild earthquake-ravaged Haiti, will receive $200,000.
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This appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Saturday, March 13, 2010
