American actor, screenwriter George Clooney has visited Tumo Center for Creative Technologies. NEWS.am correspondent reports that Clooney answered the question about his first impressions and said that he liked Armenia.
Clooney toured in the center and was introduced "Tumo" activities, educational opportunities and offered programs.
George Clooney will participate in the first awarding ceremony of the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity organized by Armenian entrepreneurs Ruben Vardanyan, Noubar Afeyan.
On behalf of the survivors of the Armenian Genocide and in gratitude to their saviors, the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity will be granted annually to an individual whose actions have had an exceptional impact on preserving human life and advancing humanitarian causes. The Aurora Prize Laureate will be honored with a US $100,000 grant. In addition, that individual will have the unique opportunity to continue the cycle of giving by nominating organizations that inspired their work to receive a US $1,000,000 award.
The ceremony will take place in Yerevan on April 24. George Clooney will hand over the award.
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