CNN Names Next "Hero"

Every year CNN names one person the "CNN Hero of the Year" based on a large pool of nominated individuals who find creative and effective ways to improve the lives of others and make our world a better place.  This year, the award went to Pushpa Basnet, a 28-year old woman in Nepal, for her efforts helping children in Nepal.



In Nepal, with an underfunded and poorly structured child welfare system, when an adult is arrested, they are often forced to take their children to prison with them.  Pushpa Basnet was very troubled to learn how many children were growing up behind prison bars, and began working to free them.


Pushpa started an NGO, the Early Childhood Development Center, that brings imprisoned children in for schooling, cooking and eating, and in many cases living.  Pushpa said that the children give her energy and that she never gets tired caring for them and running her organization. 

Check out her CNN Heroes profile here.

Want to get involved? Check out the Early Childhood Development Center website at www.ecdcnepal.org and see how to help.

It should perhaps be a motivator, not a deterrent, to think that no matter what we do with and for our communities, there is always someone doing more.

Brian