Aurora Prize finalist Marguerite Barankitse from Maison Shalom and REMA Hospital in Burundi arrived in Armenia ahead of the ceremony. 

Marguerite Barankitse has saved roughly 30,000 children and in 2008, she opened a hospital which has treated more than 80,000 patients to date. Marguerite and her colleagues now care for children orphaned by AIDS rather than war, not just in Burundi but also in Rwanda where she now lives, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Marguerite Barankitse is one of four finalists for the inaugural Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity.

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