US President Barack Obama will give his Nobel Peace Prize award money to 10 charities, including groups working on Haiti relief and supporting military families, the White House said Thursday.
Four months after the US leader received the prestigious honor in Oslo, the White House said he would split the 1.4 million dollars that comes with the prize between several charitable organizations.
A quarter of a million dollars will go to Fisher House, an NGO that provides housing for the families of US soldiers being treated at military hospitals, the White House said.
Another 200,000 dollars will be given to the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund, a charity set up after Haiti's devastating January 12 quake and administered by former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
A large portion of the award money will go to support the education of underprivileged and minority students, with gifts of 125,000 dollars going to four groups that help students from African-American, Hispanic, American-Indian and Appalachian communities.
Two other groups that provide scholarships and educational assistance will also each get 125,000 dollar gifts.
Two charities that work overseas -- AfriCare, which works primarily in sub-Saharan Africa, and the Central Asia Institute, which focuses on education in Pakistan and Afghanistan -- will each receive 100,000 dollars.
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