NEW YORK, March 12 US President Barak Obama has made good on a promise to give his $1.4m Nobel Peace Prize money to charity, including the Central Asia Institute, which promotes girls' education in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The White House released names of the organisations which will be the beneficiaries of Mr Obama's prize money.

“These organisations do extraordinary work in the United States and abroad helping students, veterans and countless others in need,” Mr Obama said in a statement “I'm proud to support their work.”

According to a report in the New York Times Mr Obama put Fisher House, an organisation that provides housing for the families of those being treated at medical centres, at the top of the list with a $250,000 donation.

Fisher House was followed by the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund the project his two immediate predecessors are running to raise money for relief and reconstruction efforts in Haiti, which will get $200,000.

White House officials said the money would go directly from the Nobel Committee to the charities..

Other organisations receiving some of Mr Obama's prize money include the Posse Foundation, which helps non-traditional high school students get into college, the United Negro College Fund, the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, the Appalachian Leadership and Education Foundation, the American Indian College Fund, Africare, and the Central Asia Institute.