Madrid Club members Benjamin Mkapa and Festus Mogae will attend "Aurora" award ceremony in Yerevan
ArmInfo.Members of the Club of Madrid former President of Tanzania Benjamin Mkapa and former President of Botswana Festus Mogae will attend the ceremony of
awarding the "Aurora" prize in Yerevan, which will be held on May 28.
As part of the agreement, Club de Madrid members Benjamin Mkapa,
former President of Tanzania, and Festus Mogae, former President of
Botswana, will participate in the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity
Ceremony in Yerevan, Armenia. These two African leaders have had
first-hand experience in dealing with ongoing conflict in Africa and
especially in Sudan. In Yerevan, they will be engaging with
humanitarian practitioners, scholars, media professionals and
policymakers to discuss effective approaches and reforms for
peacekeeping and peacebuilding and the role of economic development
in the process.
The Aurora Prize is a global award established by the Aurora
Humanitarian Initiative and granted to individuals in recognition of
the exceptional impact their actions have made on preserving human
life and advancing humanitarian causes. Presidents Mkapa and Mogae
will be on-hand to celebrate the 2017 Aurora Prize Laureate, who will
receive a US$100,000 grant to continue their work, and the
opportunity to continue the cycle of giving by nominating
organizations that inspire their work for a US$1,000,000 award. The
2017 Aurora Prize Laureate will be selected from these five
finalists: Fartuun Adan and Ilwad Elman, Jamila Afghani, Dr. Tom
Catena, Muhammad Darwish and Dr. Denis Mukwege.
The Aurora Humanitarian Initiative, a non-profit charitable
organization established on behalf of the survivors of the Armenian
Genocide and in gratitude to their saviors, today announced a
collaboration with the World Leadership Alliance Club de Madrid, the
world's largest independent forum of former heads of state and
government. The collaboration, which began May 1, 2017, aims to
inspire action to support those in need of humanitarian aid.