Sunday, October 24, 2010

CNN Heroes 2010 - Narayanan Krishnan

Around two years back, I was watching the programme live on Jaya TV where they introduced Mr. Narayanan Krishnan, a person, a well renowned chef, who dedicated his life to save and supply food for homeless destitute on the road sides of city of Madhurai, Tamil Nadu. And today, fortunately, I happened to see him again on same channel and same programme where the Visu was talking with him - I even skipped the start of today's Korean GP to watch this programme :-(. But it worth it. Towards the end of the programme only, they brought up the point that Mr. Krishnan has been nominated and selected in the last 10 person list for CNN Heroes of the Year, 2010 award. And I was equally delighted as Mr. Krishnan to know this news and he is a well deserved candidate for this award. CNN even had a polling contest in their web site for public to vote for the same. So the immediate thing that I did next was, voted for this great man for CNN heroes award. If you are interested in knowing briefly about these 10 people, then read on..

Narayanan Krishnan:
Nationality: India
Organization: Akshaya Trust, Founded in 2003.
Purpose: Serves food for homeless and destitutes on DAILY basis. He personal prepares food for all of them, personally drive over and feed around 400 destitudes and homeless people on road side of India [Madurai, Tamil Nadu].
Website: http://www.akshayatrust.org/
CNN Article: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/04/01/cnnheroes.krishnan.hunger/

Anuradha Koirala:
Nationality: Nepal
Organization: Maiti Nepal, effective since 1993 - Maiti means, Mother's home.
Active in Nepal and India. Mainly Nepal.
Purpose: Rescue and rehabilitation of girls from sexual abuse and sex traffiking.
Website: http://www.maitinepal.org/
CNN Article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/04/29/cnnheroes.koirala.nepal/

Guadalupe Arizpe De La Vega:
Nationality: Mexico
Oganization: Hospital de la Familia,
Purpose: Treats the affected people of city of Juarez, Mexico - The most murderous city. Provides all required health care facilities to the affected people of this dangerous city.
Website: http://www.hospitaldelafamilia.com/
CNN Article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/09/09/cnnheroes.delavega.juarez.hospital/index.html

Susan Burton:
Nationality: US
Activity: Helps for the rehabilitation of women who gets released from prision. Practically not as simple as how it looks.
CNN Article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/18/cnnheroes.burton/

Linda Fondren:
Nationality: US
Activity: Helps people of Vicksburg, Mississippi to fight their Obesity.
CNN Article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/08/05/cnnheroes.fondren.vicksburg/index.html

Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow:
Nationality: Scotland
Organization: Launched Mary's Meal programme which serves meal for around 4,00,000 children across the world.
Activity: Helps people in-need across the world. Mainly active on Mary's meal programme which is aimed at serving meal for needy children across the world and helps in educating them. Also helps people around when world in case of any natural calamities and also war situations.
CNN Article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/08/12/cnnheroes.marysmeals/index.html

Harmon Parker:
Nationality: US. Active work in Kenya.
Organization: Bridging the Gap.
Activity: Bridge building across mountainous regions of Kenya. Lots of people gets killed when they cross the river in mountainous region of Kenya due to floods. Their lifestyle gets affected a lot when there are floods in these rivers.
Org Website: http://www.bridgingthegapafrica.org/
CNN Article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/08/19/cnnheroes.parker.kenya.bridges/index.html

Aki Ra:
Nationality: Cambodian
Activity: About 4-6 million Mines were planted in Cambodia during the war time. Aki Ra himself has planted 4000-5000 mines per month during this war time when he was under such order. Starting from 1993, after realizing what he has done, he started removing the mines across the country. Now with the help of a group of trained people, Aki Ra has cleared around 50000 mines out of 3-5 million still un-discovered. Also helps the affected children with the orphanage that he has started.
CNN Article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/07/29/cnnheroes.cambodia.demining/index.html

Evans Wadongo:
Nationality: Kenya
Project: Use Solar, Save Lives
Activity: Helps Kenyan poor rurals who had no access to lights. With his project "Use Solar, Save Lives", his solar powered LED lights are distributed to thousands of rurals in Kenya who has no access to light.
CNN Article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/02/11/cnnheroes.wadongo/

Dan Wallrath:
Nationality: Dan Wallrath
Activity: Builds home for the veterans who were handicapped and left without any aid in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
CNN Article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/03/11/cnnheroes.wallrath.vets.houses/

So finally I voted for Mr. Narayanan Krishnan. Why are you still reading this? Go and cast your vote to select the hero of this year..

Btw, just to mention, both Ferrari on the Podium today :-)

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