An Oregon truck driver, Junichi Shimizu, who helped save the lives of three people involved in a fiery traffic accident, including a driver who was trapped in his burning vehicle, was awarded the 2009 Goodyear North America Highway Hero.
Armed with a good education, high ideals and the courage to match, Uttam Sanjel created a new answer to the problem of child destitution: the construction of schools quickly and efficiently using bamboo. Bamboo is inexpensive (its use lowers the budget for construction by 60 percent), strong, earthquake-proof and easy to find.
An Argentine man became a hero when he pushed a stalled truck off the train tracks seconds before a train roars in. He had been waiting on a scooter behind the van.
A man toting 120 books while riding a stubborn donkey is a thrilling sight for hundreds of children in the rural villages of Colombia. Luis Soriano is a man with a mission to save rural children from illiteracy.
In the last few years, Washington's great sports impresario and philanthropist suffered from a rare brain disease that robbed him of everything but his burning love of life and sports and his burning desire to help sick children and the poor in Washington and around the world. When he saw children in need, his generosity was boundless.
A Harley-riding Wisconsin senior has been given the National Franciscan Peace Award for 2009, an honor previously given to Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II. Don Ryder works as the Wausau city safety director, but it is his work on a life-saving water project in drought-ridden Africa that earned him the prize.
The Tech Awards is an international program honoring innovators from around the world who are applying technology to benefit humanity. This year's winners received their awards at a Gala yesterday in San Jose, CA.
(CNN) — Efren Peñaflorida, who started a "pushcart classroom" in the Philippines to provide an alternative to gang membership and bring education to poor children who are scavenging in landfills, has been named the 2009 CNN Hero of the Year. CNN's Anderson Cooper unveiled Peñaflorida as the winner of the most online votes at the […]
Olly Neal grew up in Arkansas during the 1950s. He didn't care much for high school. One day during his senior year, he cut class — and wandered into the school library. He stumbled onto a book written by African-American author Frank Yerby. And the discovery changed the life of a teenage boy who was, in Neal's memory, "a rather troubled high school senior."
A young Chicago medical school gradute is travelling to five countries in 30 days with a big mission -- to raise money for a school in Zambia that his parents founded for orphaned and abandoned children.
Residents of a West Bank village with no electricity have been helped out of the darkness by an unlikely aid group: Israelis installed solar panels and wind turbines to illuminate the Palestinians' makeshift homes.
The Top 10 CNN Heroes of 2009 -- remarkable individuals nominated by viewers for their sacrifices and accomplishments -- are being announced today on the CNN networks.