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CNN has allowed site visitors to vote on their poll for their 2010 CNN Hero of the Year. The voting lasted for eight weeks.
Several celebrities and music artists showed up for the event, in support of the efforts of everyday people whom have show amazing courage and acts of kindness around the world. The show will air at 8pm ET, Thursday, November 25th and also on Friday, November 26th at 5 a.m.
The top 10 CNN Heroes were: Guadalupe Arizpe De La Vega (founded a hospital in the heightened violence city of Juarez, Mexico), Susan Barton (founder of a sober housing and support services to formerly incarcerated women in California), Linda Fondren (helped her home town in Mississippi battle weight gain and lose 15,000 pounds), Anuradha Koirala (fighting to prevent trafficking and sexual exploitation in Nepal), Narayanan Krishnan (brings hot meals and dignity to the homeless in India), Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow (provides over 400,000 free meals to children around the world), Harmon Parker (since 1997 has used his masonry skills to help build 45 footbridges over rivers in Kenya), Aki Ra (planted mines as a child soldier and since 1993 has worked to clear approximately 50,000 mines and weapons in Cambodia), Evands Wadongo (distributed 10,000 free solar lanterns to replace kerosene to rural families in Kenya), and Dan Wallrath (provides mortgage-free homes to injured veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan).
The winner of the prestigious 2010 CNN Hero of Year was Anuradha Koirala. She also received a 100,000 award for her efforts, in addition to the $25,000 award given to each of the top 10 Heroes.
Actress Demi Moore introduced Koirala at the event. Demi Moore and her husband Ashton Kutcher created the DNA foundation, to “eliminate child sex slavery worldwide”.
“Since 1993, Koirala, has helped rescue more than 12,000 women and girls through her organization, Maiti Nepal.” Koira has also “Provided a home fro them to heal, go to school, learn a skill”, including for the some that have been infected with HIV/AIDS. “It is the place where they can spend their days and be surrounded by love.”
Moore quoted Koirala, “She says, ‘Stop. Stop selling our girls.’ By raiding brothels and patrolling the India-Nepal border, she saves girls from being sold into the sex trade, where they are being repeatedly raped for profit, tortured and enslaved.”
When introduced, Koirala said, “Human trafficking is a crime, a heinous crime, a shame to humanity. I ask everyone to join me to create a society free of trafficking. We need to do this for all our daughters. Please try to respect the youth. They are the ones who are going to build the next generation.”
Source: Indie Pro PubCNN Hero of the Year, Human Trafficking Activist | Indie Pro Pub
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