CNN Heroes

CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute (German: CNN Helden: a tribute) is a television program from CNN . The aim of the program is to honor people who make exceptional contributions in the field of humanitarian aid. The show is moderated by Anderson Cooper, the show started in 2007. The winners will be announced in broadcasts at the end of the year. Over the course of a year, viewers can nominate and vote for heroes.

2017 Heroes

The top ten CNN heroes of 2017 (in alphabetical order):

• Stan Hays
• Samir Lakhani
• Jennifer Maddox
• Rosie Mashale
• Andrew Manzi
• Leslie Morissette
• Mona Patel
• Khali Sweeney
• Aaron Valencia
• Amy Wright (CNN Hero of the Year)

2016 Heroes

The top ten CNN heroes of 2016 (in alphabetical order):

• Jeison Aristizábal, Colombia (CNN Hero of the Year)
• Craig Dodson, USA
• Sherri Franklin, USA
• Brad Ludden, USA
• Luma Mufleh, USA
• Umra Omar, Kenya
• Georgie Smith, USA
• Sheldon Smith, USA
• Becca Stevens, USA
• Harry Swimmer, USA

2015 Heroes

The top ten CNN heroes of 2015 (in alphabetical order):

• Bhagwati Agrawal, Inden
• Kim Carter, USA
• Maggie Doyne, USA (CNN Hero of the Year)
• Jody Farley-Berens
• Sean Gobin, USA
• Daniel Ivankovich, USA
• Richard Joyner, USA
• Monique Pool,
• Rochelle Ripley, USA
• Jim Withers, USA

2014 Heroes

The top ten CNN heroes of 2014 (in alphabetical order):

• Arthur Bloom, USA
• Jon Burns, England
• Pen Farthing, England (CNN Hero of the Year)
• Elimelech Goldberg, USA
• Leela Hazzah, Kenya
• Patricia Kelly, USA
• Annette March-Grier, USA
• Ned Norton, USA
• Juan Pablo Romero Fuentes, Guatemala
• Dr. Wendy Ross, USA

Heroes 2013

The top ten CNN heroes of 2013 (in alphabetical order):

• Dale Beatty, Co-Founder of Purple Heart Homes
• George Bwelle
• Robin Emmons
• Danielle Gletow, founder of One Simple Wish
• Tawanda Jones
• Richard Nares
• Kakenya Ntaiya
• Chad Pregracke (CNN Hero of the Year)
• Estella Pyfrom, inventor of "Estalla's Brilliant Bus"
• Laura sting

Heroes 2012

The top ten CNN heroes of 2012 (in alphabetical order):

Surname	origin	Project
Pushpa Basnet	Kathmandu, Nepal	2012 CNN Hero of the year
Wanda Butts	Ohio , USA
Mary Cortani	California, USA
Catalina Escobar	Cartagena , Colombia
Razia Jan	Afghanistan	together with an organization from Massachusetts, USA
Thulani Madondo	Kliptown, South Africa
Leo McCarthy	Montana , USA
Connie Siskowski	New Jersey, USA
Scott Strode	Colorado, USA
Malya Villard-Appolon	Kofaviv , Haiti

Heroes 2011

The top ten CNN heroes of 2011 (in alphabetical order):

Surname	origin	Project
Eddi Canales	Texas, USA
Taryn Davis	North Carolina, USA	Founded the American Widow Project (AWP) in 2007 to support the widows of the dead in the United States.
Sal Dimiceli	Wisconsin, USA	Writer of The Time is Now to Help column , which appears in the Lake Geneva Regional News. Dimiceli supports families in need by filling their fridges, paying their open gas, water or electricity bills, and arranging a financial advisor for the family, who is supposed to help the family avoid financial difficulties in the future.
Derreck Kayongo	Atlanta, USA	Global Soap Project distributes underutilized soaps from hotels to those in need in order to improve their quality of life. Since 2009, 150,000 bars of soap have been distributed to communities in ten countries.
Diane Latiker	Chicago, USA
Robin Lim	Bali, Indonesia	CNN Hero of the Year 2011 Founder of the Yayasan Bumi Sehat (Healthy Mother Earth Foundation) clinics, which have been providing free medical care for pregnant women and signers since 2003 and thus try to combat Indonesia's high maternal and infant mortality rates.
Patrice Millet	Haiti
Bruno Serato	California, USA
Richard St. Denis	Mexico	Distributed with World Access Project since 2008 hundreds of wheelchairs and mobility aids to disabled people in rural Mexico.
Amy Stokes	South Africa

Heroes 2010

The top ten CNN heroes of 2010 (in alphabetical order):

Surname	origin	Project
Guadalupe Arizpe de la Vega	Juarez, Mexico
Susan Burton	California, USA
Linda Fondren	Mississippi, USA
Anuradha Koirala	Kathmandu, Nepal	CNN Hero of the Year 2010 Founder and head of the Nepalese non-profit organization Maiti Nepal (mother's home). The organization helps victims of "sex trafficking" (human trafficking and sexual exploitation).
Narayanan Krishnan	Madurai , India	Founded the Akshaya Trust in 2003, which distributes breakfast, lunch and dinner to around 400 homeless, mentally handicapped, old and needy people in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. (Swell:
Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow	Scotland, UK	Founder of the Mary's Meals campaign , which provides free school meals in hundreds of schools around the world to enable children to attend school.
Harmon Parker	Kenya, Africa
Aki Ra	Cambodia
Evans Wadongo	Kenya, Africa
Dan Wallrath	Texas, USA

Also honored were 33 Chilean miners who had survived the mining disaster in San José .

Heroes 2009

The top ten CNN heroes of 2009 (in alphabetical order):

Surname	origin	Project
Jorge Munoz	New York, USA	Founder of the An Angel in Queens organization that has been distributing free meals in Queens, New York, USA since the summer of 2004. (Source:)
Jordan Thomas	Tennessee, USA
Budi Soehardi	Kupang, Indonesia
Betty Makoni	London, UK	The Girl Child Network, which she founded, cares for young victims of sexual violence in Zimbabwe and has so far helped more than 35,000 girls. (Swell: )
Doc Hendley	North Carolina, USA	Founder of the non-profit organization Wine to Water , which provides people around the world with clean water and sanitation.
Efren Peñaflorida	Cavite City, Philippines	CNN Hero of the Year 2009 Founder and head of the Dynamic Teen Company organization , which aims to offer Filipino youth an alternative to street gangs. In addition to various projects, the "pushcart school" (cart school) was launched. Carts are loaded with tables, chairs, books and pens etc. and driven to places where young people normally do not have access to schooling, e.g. B. on rubbish dumps, where they are taught by volunteers on Saturdays and during the summer holidays. (Swell:)
Derrick Tabb	Louisiana, USA
Roy Foster	Florida, USA
Andrea Ivory	Florida, USA
Brad Blauser	Texas, USA

Heroes 2008

The top ten CNN heroes of 2008 (in alphabetical order):

Surname	origin	Project
Tad Agoglia	New York, USA	Founder of the First Response Team of America (about: America's Disaster Response Team ) which provides emergency relief in disaster areas. Since May 2007, the team has helped thousands of victims in countless disasters across the United States.
Yohannes Gebregeorgis	Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	In 1998 he founded the organization Ethiopia Reads (Ethiopia Reads), an aid organization with the aim of literacy for children in Ethiopia. Since 2003 the organization has set up ten free school libraries, as well as the 'Mobile Donkey Libraries' program, which brings books to rural areas. The organization also publishes books in Amharic for young readers.
Carolyn LeCroy	Virginia, USA
Anne Mahlum	Pennsylvania, USA
Liz McCartney	Louisiana, USA	CNN Hero of the Year 2008 Co-founder of the St. Bernhard Project , founded in March 2006 , which rebuilds houses that were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.
Phymean Noun	Ontario, USA
David Puckett	Georgia, USA
Maria Ruiz	Texas, USA
Marie Da Silva	born in Malawi, resident in California, USA	Founded the Jacaranda Foundation in 2002 . The Jacaranda School, located in Malawi, offers free tuition not only for the primary school, which is generally free in Malawi, but also for the secondary school, which is usually paid for. The foundation also pays the students' additional costs, such as uniform, exercise books, pens, examination fees, and distributes a meal to the students every day.
Viola Vaughn	Kaolack, Senegal

Heroes 2007

The 18 CNN Heroes 2007 finalists (in alphabetical order):

Surname	origin	Project
Florence Cassassuce	La Paz, Mexico
Kayla Cornale	Ontario, USA
Irania Martinez Garcia	Guantanamo, Cuba
Pablo Fajardo	Ecuador	CNN Hero of the Year 2007 Growing up in extreme poverty himself, he studied law thanks to the support of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the chief counsel against Chevron Corporation, representing thousands of indigenous people in the Lago Agrio oil fields, which were originally developed by Texaco.
Rangina Hamidi	Virginia, USA
Rick Hodes	Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Lynwook Hughes	North Carolina, USA
Dallas Jessup	Washington, USA
Peter Kithene	Washington, USA	Born in Kenya, he lost his parents and six siblings at the age of 12 without them having access to medical help. He then made it his goal to bring health care to rural areas in Africa. In 2005 he founded the organization Mama Maria Kenya . The aim is to change the focus of health care. If the needy were previously cared for, the residents should now have the opportunity to invest in their future themselves.
Scott Loeff	Illinois, USA
Mark Maksimowicz	Florida, USA
James McDowell	New York, USA
Anne McGee	Nevada, USA
Josh Miller	California, USA	Founded the Resilient Youth Foundation as a teenager , which developed a program to discover students who are excelling at school.
Rosemary Nyirumbe	Uganda
Steve Peifer	Kijabe, Kenya
S. Ramakrishnan	Ayikydy, India
Julie Rems-Smario	California, USA
Scott Southworth	United States	While he was stationed in Iraq as an American soldier, he adopted the 9-year-old Iraqi boy Ala'a Eddeen, who was unable to walk due to cerebral palsy , and brought him to the United States. Following this case, a movement grew in the US calling for more disabled and orphaned Iraqi children to be brought to the US.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Meet the top 10 CNN Heroes of 2017 . Retrieved November 3, 2017.
2. ↑ CNN Hero of the Year winner: 'God chose me to help' . Retrieved November 12, 2016.
3. ↑ Melonyce McAfee CNN: CNN Hero of the Year winner: 'God chose me to help' .
4. ↑ 2015 CNN Hero of the Year Maggie Doyne helps women, children in Nepal . Retrieved November 12, 2016.
5. ↑ CNN: Pen Farthing is 2014's CNN Hero of the Year . Retrieved December 8, 2014. 
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8. ^ An awards show unlike any other - CNN.com . In: CNN , December 10, 2011. 
9. ↑ http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/07/28/cnnheroes.dimiceli/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1
10. ^ An awards show unlike any other - CNN.com . In: http://www.cnn.com/ . December 10, 2011. Retrieved December 10, 2011.
11. ↑ 'Mother Robin' wins CNN Hero of the Year - CNN.com . In: CNN , December 27, 2011. 
12. ^ Saving mothers and their babies - CNN.com . In: CNN . October 28, 2011. Retrieved October 28, 2011.
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15. ↑ CNN Heroes 2010 . In: CNN . 
16. ↑ "Roy Exum: He's Still My Hero" ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from The Chattanoogan 
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18. ↑ http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cnn.heroes/archive10/magnus.macfarlane.barrow.html
19. ^ Adam B. Ellick: The Chicken and Rice Man , The New York Times . November 27, 2007. Retrieved November 25, 2009. 
20. ↑ Child rape survivor saves 'virgin myth' victims . In: CNN , October 1, 2009. Retrieved December 27, 2009. 
21. ↑ Efren Peñaflorida Wins CNN Hero Of The Year 2009 . In: Huffington Post , Nov. 22, 2009. 
22. ^ Efren Peñaflorida: An ordinary man doing extraordinary things . Archived from the original on April 3, 2012 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved June 3, 2012.  
23. ^ ^{A b} "Founder." Ethiopia Reads. 2009.Web. < Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. > 
24. ↑ Lee, Janet. "Ethiopia's Storybook Hero." International Leads 2/23 (2009): 1, 7th print
25. ^ "Donkey Mobile Libraries." 2009.Web. < Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. > 
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27. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
28. ↑ http://chevrontoxico.com/news-and-multimedia/2007/1207-pablo-fajardo-wins-cnn-hero-award.html
29. ^ GI Saves Iraqi Boy in Long-Shot Adoption . Fox News . December 25, 2007. Archived from the original on June 29, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 11, 2011.  

Web links

• Official website "CNN Heroes" (English)