Nobel donation

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”.

Nobel donation

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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