Sara Corning’s statue was unveiled in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
She saved thousands of Armenian and Greek orphans between the years of 1915 and 1930. Sara Corning worked as a nurse for the US Red Cross during World War I.
In 1921, Corning became the head of an orphanage located at the foot of Mount Ararat. She and two others established a hospital there with the intent of taking care of the sick and wounded, but the Ottoman troops quickly have it closed down. Then, she founded another hospital, but this one also suffered the same fate.
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When the Near East Relief organized an evacuation via the sea during the burning of Smyrna, Corning ran to an American-run orphanage and began herding children to the docks. She was able to save 5,000 children.
Lusine Budaghyan
