Sunday, October 3, 2010

CNN Heroes 2010-Vote

It's coming next month, on Thanksgiving Day @ 8pm, eastern standard time. CNN Heroes is a once a year special event, about ordinary people doing the unordinary, while changing the world one person at a time. The television special started in 2007 and continues to highlight medical marvels, community crusaders, championing children, young wonders, those protecting the powerless and those defending the planet. This years 10 are just as powerful as the proceeding years and as usual it will be a difficult vote for the CNN Hero of 2010. They are diverse in culture and gender. You may or may not know that one of the 2008 nominee for CNN Heroes was Yohannes Gebregeorgis, Founder of Ethiopia Reads. You can read more about him here. Our Trip to Ethiopia featured Ethiopia Reads, on this site, in December 2009, before distributing donations from all of you, to the non-profit, at their doorstep in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia!

This years competition is going to be good. If you want to get to know all the nominees with a brief history of their work, just click here. If you want to vote with rules on the voting process, you can click on the vote now tab or click here. I have been waiting in eager anticipation and can't wait to see the next one. I honestly can't make up my mind on who to vote for. I may just have to vote for more than one person.

1 comment:

  1. Hi fellow hippo!
    I've never even heard of this event! I feel so out of touch with the world!

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