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AMAL CLOONEY MAKES LEBANESE STUDENT'S DREAM COME TRUE WITH SCHOLARSHIP


AMAL CLOONEY has helped a Lebanese teenager realise her dream of
studying abroad as part of her young women's scholarship programme.

The human rights lawyer, who married Hollywood superstar George
Clooney in 2014, founded her educational initiative the following year
to help girls from her native Lebanon realise their potential.

This year (18), Amal and assessors at the Aurora Humanitarian
Initiative, an organisation founded on behalf of the survivors of the
Armenian Genocide, chose 16-year-old women's rights activist Kamar
Omary as the youngster who will travel to Armenia to attend the United
World College Dilijan.

"This scholarship will give young women from Lebanon the opportunity
of a lifetime," the 40-year-old said in a statement. "Cross-cultural
learning and studying abroad can be transformative. I am grateful to
the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative for helping to open doors for these
bright and talented young women."

Kamar, who was selected due to her interest in activism and her school
grades, also revealed that her mother "cried" when she found out that
her daughter would begin studying in Armenia in August.

She added: "The closer it gets to August the more nervous I become -
it's exciting because it's terrifying. This is an opportunity of a
lifetime. I hope to gain a platform - to talk to and change people. To
bring about change you need to inspire individual people and change
the world one person at a time. And that's what I'm planning to do."