Nobel Nominee Speaks at Michigan’s Manoogian School

This courtesy last Friday’s Detroit News newspaper:

…Lady Caroline Cox…a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, retold the dramatic stories of aid and rescue Friday morning to more than 160 middle and high school students at AGBU Alex & Marie Manoogian School, an Armenian charter school in Southfield.

Showing photos of survivors and cities reduced to rubble — the less graphic images of the resulting devastation — Cox said everyone has a responsibility to help those who are neglected and oppressed around the globe.

“We can’t do everything, but each one of us should say to ourselves: we must not do nothing,” she said.

Chief executive of Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART), Cox has visited Armenia more than 60 times, as well as the war-torn region of Darfur, Sudan.

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At the Manoogian School, students for their part gave Cox $500 to help run a rehabilitation center in Nagorno-Karabakh that serves disabled children and is financially supported by HART.

Abigail Newman, 16, of West Bloomfield, said she was struck by Cox’s compassion.

“It makes me relieved to know that it’s not just my school and not just my community that’s interested in Armenia,” said Newman, a junior in high school. “It brings such hope for the future.” (source)