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2016 Aurora Prize Laureate Marguerite Barankitse

2016 Aurora Prize Laureate Marguerite Barankitse

2016 Aurora Prize Laureate, Marguerite Barankitse of Maison Shalom and REMA Hospital in Burundi, saved thousands of lives and cared for orphans and refugees during the years of civil war in Burundi. To date, she has saved an estimated 30,000 children and in 2008, she opened a hospital which has treated more than 80,000 patients thus far.