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Index CNN Heroes

CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute is a television special created by CNN to honor individuals who make extraordinary contributions to humanitarian aid and make a difference in their communities. [1]

128 relations: Addis Ababa, Adoption of Ala'a Eddeen, Afghanistan, Africa, Aki Ra, American Widow Project, Amy Wright (activist), Anaheim, California, Anderson Cooper, Anuradha Koirala, Arthur Bloom, Atlanta, Bali, Betty Makoni, Blowing Rock, North Carolina, Burlington, Ontario, Cali, California, Cambodia, Cartagena, Colombia, Cavite City, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Chicago, Ciudad Juárez, CNN, Colombia, Colorado, Cuba, Dallas, Derreck Kayongo, Derrick Tabb, Diane Latiker, Doc Hendley, Done and Dusted, Ecuador, Efren Peñaflorida, El Paso, Texas, Ethiopia, Evans Wadongo, Florida, Georgia (U.S. state), Gracie family, Guadalupe Arizpe de la Vega, Guantánamo, Guatemala, Haiti, Hamish Hamilton, Illinois, India, Indonesia, ..., Joel Gallen, Jorge Muñoz, Josh Miller (education), Kaolack, Kathmandu, Kenya, Kijabe, Kliptown, Kupang, La Paz, Las Vegas Valley, Leela Hazzah, List of volunteer awards, Liz McCartney, London, Long Island, Los Angeles, Louisiana, Madurai, Maggie Doyne, Malawi, Marie da Silva, Mary's Meals, Massachusetts, Mexico, Mississippi, Montana, Narayanan Krishnan, Nepal, Nevada, New Jersey, New Orleans, New York (state), News & Documentary Emmy Award, Norfolk, Virginia, North Carolina, Oakland, California, Ohio, One Simple Wish, Ontario, Palm Beach, Florida, Patchogue, New York, Peabody Award, Pen Farthing, Pennsylvania, Peter Kithene, Philadelphia, Philippines, Phymean Noun, Pushpa Basnet, Queens, Razia Jan, Richard St. Denis, Rick Hodes, Robin Lim, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Sal Dimiceli, San Francisco, Santa Monica, California, Savannah, Georgia, Scotland, Seattle, Senegal, South Africa, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, St. Petersburg, Florida, Stone Ridge, Virginia, Tad Skylar Agoglia, Tennessee, Texas, Toronto, Uganda, Vancouver, Washington, Virginia, West Park, Florida, Wisconsin, Yohannes Gebregeorgis, 2010 Copiapó mining accident. Expand index (78 more) »

Addis Ababa

Addis Ababa (አዲስ አበባ,, "new flower"; or Addis Abeba (the spelling used by the official Ethiopian Mapping Authority); Finfinne "natural spring") is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia.

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Adoption of Ala'a Eddeen

The Adoption of Ala'a Eddeen is an adoption of a then 9-year-old Iraqi boy, who could not walk because he suffered from cerebral palsy, by American Capt. Scott Southworth while he was deployed during the Iraq War.

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan (Pashto/Dari:, Pashto: Afġānistān, Dari: Afġānestān), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located within South Asia and Central Asia.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Aki Ra

Aki Ra (sometimes written Akira) is a former Khmer Rouge conscripted child soldier who works as a deminer and museum curator in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

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American Widow Project

American Widow Project (AWP) is a non-profit organization providing peer to peer support to a new generation of military widows grieving the loss of a spouse in the United States armed forces.

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Amy Wright (activist)

Amy Wright is an American advocate for disabled people who was named 2017 CNN Hero of the Year.

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Anaheim, California

Anaheim (pronounced) is a city in Orange County, California, part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

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Anderson Cooper

Anderson Hays Cooper (born June 3, 1967) is an American journalist, television personality, and author.

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Anuradha Koirala

Anuradha Koirala (born 14 April 1949) is a Nepalese social activist and the founder and director of Maiti Nepal – a non-profit organization in Nepal, dedicated to helping victims of sex trafficking.

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Arthur Bloom

Arthur Bloom is an American composer and pianist, and the founder and director of MusiCorps.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.

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Bali

Bali (Balinese:, Indonesian: Pulau Bali, Provinsi Bali) is an island and province of Indonesia with the biggest Hindu population.

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Betty Makoni

Hazviperi Betty Makoni is a Zimbabwean gender activist who in 1999 founded the Girl Child Network, a charity which supports Zimbabwe's young sex abuse victims.

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Blowing Rock, North Carolina

Blowing Rock is a town in Watauga and Caldwell counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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Burlington, Ontario

Burlington is a city in the Regional Municipality of Halton at the northwestern end of Lake Ontario.

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Cali

Santiago de Cali, usually known by its short name "Cali", is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia, with an estimated 2,319,655 residents according to 2005-2020/DANE population projections.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Cambodia

Cambodia (កម្ពុជា, or Kampuchea:, Cambodge), officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia (ព្រះរាជាណាចក្រកម្ពុជា, prĕəh riəciənaacak kampuciə,; Royaume du Cambodge), is a sovereign state located in the southern portion of the Indochina peninsula in Southeast Asia.

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Cartagena, Colombia

The city of Cartagena, known in the colonial era as Cartagena de Indias (Cartagena de Indias), is a major port founded in 1533, located on the northern coast of Colombia in the Caribbean Coast Region.

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Cavite City

Cavite City, officially the City of Cavite (Lungsod ng Cavite; Ciudad de Cavite), is a fourth class urban component city in the province of Cavite of the region of CALABARZON in the Philippines.

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Chattanooga, Tennessee

Chattanooga is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, with a population of 177,571 in 2016.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Ciudad Juárez

Ciudad Juárez (Juarez City) is the most populous city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a sovereign state largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America.

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Colorado

Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Derreck Kayongo

Derreck Kayongo was born January 25, 1970, in Kampala, Uganda, just before General Idi Amin Dada seized power in a military coup.

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Derrick Tabb

Derrick Tabb (born 27 May 1975) an American musician, is a long-standing member of the Grammy Award-winning Rebirth Brass Band and a co-founder of The Roots of Music, a non-profit organization that sponsors an after-school academic and music program for children in New Orleans.

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Diane Latiker

Diane Latiker is a community activist in Chicago.

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Doc Hendley

Dickson Beattie "Doc" Hendley (born March 19, 1979) is the founder of Wine to Water, an American charitable organization devoted to providing clean water and sanitation to people around the world.

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Done and Dusted

Done and Dusted (stylised as DONE+DUSTED) are a television production and event staging company.

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Ecuador

Ecuador (Ikwadur), officially the Republic of Ecuador (República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Ikwadur Ripuwlika), is a representative democratic republic in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Efren Peñaflorida

Efren Peñaflorida, (born March 9, 1981), is a Filipino teacher and development worker.

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El Paso, Texas

El Paso (from Spanish, "the pass") is a city in and the seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States.

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia (ኢትዮጵያ), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (የኢትዮጵያ ፌዴራላዊ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ, yeʾĪtiyoṗṗya Fēdēralawī Dēmokirasīyawī Rīpebilīk), is a country located in the Horn of Africa.

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Evans Wadongo

Evans Wadongo (born 11 March 1986) is a Kenyan engineer, the Co-Founder of GreenWize Energy Ltd, the Executive Director and Founder of SDFA-Kenya.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.

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Gracie family

The Gracie family is a prominent martial arts family from Brazil known for their development of Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ).

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Guadalupe Arizpe de la Vega

Guadalupe Arizpe De La Vega is a Mexican humanitarian who founded the Federación Mexicana de Asociaciones y Empresas Privadas (FEMAP), which supports two hospitals and a nursing school Cuidad Juárez.

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Guantánamo

Guantánamo is a municipality and city in southeast Cuba and capital of Guantánamo Province.

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Guatemala

Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala (República de Guatemala), is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, Honduras to the east and El Salvador to the southeast.

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Haiti

Haiti (Haïti; Ayiti), officially the Republic of Haiti and formerly called Hayti, is a sovereign state located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea.

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Hamish Hamilton

Hamish Hamilton Limited was a British book publishing house, founded in 1931 eponymously by the half-Scot half-American Jamie Hamilton (Hamish is the vocative form of the Gaelic 'Seumas', James the English form – which was also his given name, and Jamie the diminutive form).

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indonesia

Indonesia (or; Indonesian), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Republik Indonesia), is a transcontinental unitary sovereign state located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania.

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Joel Gallen

Joel Gallen is an American television and film director, producer, screenwriter, and founder and president of Tenth Planet Productions.

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Jorge Muñoz

Jorge Muñoz Zapata (born 23 March 1964) is a Colombian American philanthropist and politician.

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Josh Miller (education)

Josh Miller is Director of Product for the White House.

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Kaolack

Kaolack (Kawlax in Wolof) is a town of 172,305 people (2002 census) on the north bank of the Saloum River and the N1 road in Senegal.

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Kathmandu

Kathmandu (काठमाडौं, ये:. Yei, Nepali pronunciation) is the capital city of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country in Africa with its capital and largest city in Nairobi.

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Kijabe

Kijabe is a town in Kenya.

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Kliptown

Kliptown is a suburb of the formerly black township of Soweto in Gauteng, South Africa, located about 17 km south-west of Johannesburg.

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Kupang

Kupang (Kota Kupang,; Dutch spelling: Koepang) is the capital of the Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara, and has an estimated population in 2011 of 349,344.

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La Paz

La Paz, officially known as Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Our Lady of Peace), also named Chuqi Yapu (Chuquiago) in Aymara, is the seat of government and the de facto national capital of the Plurinational State of Bolivia (the constitutional capital of Bolivia is Sucre).

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Las Vegas Valley

The Las Vegas Valley is a major metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada.

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Leela Hazzah

Leela Hazzah is an Egyptian conservation biologist who works in Kenya and Tanzania.

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List of volunteer awards

This is a list of awards issued by organisations and governmental bodies honoring the contributions of volunteers (unpaid staff).

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Liz McCartney

Liz McCartney cofounded SBP (formerly the St. Bernard Project) in March 2006 to rebuild homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in the St. Bernard Parish of Louisiana, southeast of New Orleans.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Long Island

Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor just 0.35 miles (0.56 km) from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Louisiana

Louisiana is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Madurai

Madurai is one of the major cities in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Maggie Doyne

Maggie Doyne (Nepali: म्यागी डोएन) (born c. 1986) is an American philanthropist who has built a children's home, women's center and school in Surkhet, Nepal.

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Malawi

Malawi (or; or maláwi), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland.

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Marie da Silva

Marie da Silva is a Malawian AIDS activist and founder of the Jacaranda Foundation from Chembomba, Malawi.

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Mary's Meals

Mary's Meals is a registered charity, formerly known as Scottish International Relief (SIR), which sets up school feeding programmes in some of the world's poorest communities, where hunger and poverty prevent children from gaining an education.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Mississippi

Mississippi is a state in the Southern United States, with part of its southern border formed by the Gulf of Mexico.

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Montana

Montana is a state in the Northwestern United States.

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Narayanan Krishnan

Narayanan Krishnan (born 1981 in Madurai, Tamil Nadu) is an Indian chef-turned-social worker.

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Nepal

Nepal (नेपाल), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal (सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल), is a landlocked country in South Asia located mainly in the Himalayas but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

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Nevada

Nevada (see pronunciations) is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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News & Documentary Emmy Award

The News & Documentary Emmy Awards are presented by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) in recognition of excellence in American national news and documentary programming.

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Norfolk, Virginia

Norfolk is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Oakland, California

Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States.

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Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.

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One Simple Wish

One Simple Wish is a non-profit that uses technology to raise awareness about foster care and connect caring people to kids in need.

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Ontario

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.

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Palm Beach, Florida

The Town of Palm Beach is an incorporated town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.

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Patchogue, New York

Patchogue is a village on the south shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York, United States.

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Peabody Award

The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards) program, named for American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in television, radio, and online media.

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Pen Farthing

Paul "Pen" Farthing is a former Royal Marines commando and founder of the Nowzad Dogs charity.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Peter Kithene

Peter Kithene is the founder of the Mama Maria Medical Clinic in Muhuru Bay, Kenya.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Philippines

The Philippines (Pilipinas or Filipinas), officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ng Pilipinas), is a unitary sovereign and archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Phymean Noun

Phymean Noun is an activist for Cambodian children, winner of the 2015 World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child, and founder of the People Improvement Organization.

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Pushpa Basnet

Pushpa Basnet (Nepali: पुष्पा बस्नेत) is a social worker and the Founder/President of Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) and Butterfly Home, non-profit organizations, in Kathmandu, Nepal.

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Queens

Queens is the easternmost and largest in area of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Razia Jan

Razia Jan, born in Afghanistan, has worked for many years to forge connections between Afghans and Americans.

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Richard St. Denis

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Rick Hodes

Rick Hodes is an American medical doctor specializing in cancer, heart disease, and spinal conditions.

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Robin Lim

Robin Lim ("Mother Robin," or "Ibu Robin") is a midwife and founder of Yayasan Bumi Sehat (Healthy Mother Earth Foundation) health clinics, which offer free prenatal care, birthing services and medical aid to anyone who needs it.

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Rocky Mount, North Carolina

Rocky Mount is a city in Edgecombe and Nash counties in the Atlantic coastal plain region of the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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Sal Dimiceli

Sal Dimiceli is a real estate businessman from Lake Geneva, Wisconsin who writes a column on charity for the.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Savannah, Georgia

Savannah is the oldest city in the U.S. state of Georgia and is the county seat of Chatham County.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.

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Senegal

Senegal (Sénégal), officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country in West Africa.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana

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St. Petersburg, Florida

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Stone Ridge, Virginia

Stone Ridge is a census-designated place located in Aldie, Virginia in Loudoun County, Virginia near Washington Dulles International Airport.

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Tad Skylar Agoglia

Tad Skylar Agoglia (born 22 May 1976) is originally from Long Island, NY.

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Tennessee

Tennessee (translit) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Uganda

Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda (Jamhuri ya Uganda), is a landlocked country in East Africa.

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Vancouver, Washington

Vancouver is a city on the north bank of the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington, and the largest suburb of Portland, Oregon.

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Virginia

Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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West Park, Florida

West Park, officially the City of West Park, is a municipality in Broward County, Florida, United States.

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Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions.

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Yohannes Gebregeorgis

Yohannes Gebregeorgis, an Ethiopian native, is the founder of Ethiopia Reads, a philanthropic organization committed to bringing literacy to the children of Ethiopia.

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2010 Copiapó mining accident

The 2010 Copiapó mining accident, also known then as the "Chilean mining accident", began on Thursday, 5 August 2010 with a cave-in at the San José copper–gold mine, located in the Atacama Desert north of the regional capital of Copiapó, in northern Chile.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN_Heroes

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