YEREVAN. – A postal stamp, which is devoted to the laureates of the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity of the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative, was formally put into circulation in Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia.

News service of the Ministry of Transport, Communication and Information Technologies informed the aforementioned. 

The postal stamp depicts Marguerite Barankitse, the inaugural 2016 Laureate of the Aurora Prize, who was awarded this accolade in recognition of her exceptional impact during the years of the civil war in Burundi. She had saved about 30 thousand children by providing them shelter and care. 

Barankitse was on hand at the official ceremony of putting this postal stamp into circulation.