Billions of Americans are struggling in today's world. Four out of every five American is struggling in some type of way. The brave people of today’s world who help those in need are labeled as today’s heroes. Doc Hendley, Marc Gold, and Pushpa Basnet are all heroes of today’s world. Doc Hendley is a former CNN hero. He is the founder of the organization Wine to Water. Wine to Water is an organization started to help people in need of clean water. One day Doc was at work when he overheard a woman.
“Water kills more children than HIV/AIDS and malaria combined. A child dies every 15 seconds without clean drinking water.”
Ever since that, he’s dreamed of building an organization that fights water related deaths and diseases. He decided to start raising money by selling wine. He made the wine himself with his bartending …show more content…
Pushpa Basnet is a hero. One day Pushpa visited a women's prison for her studies and was completely shocked by the conditions they were living in. While at the prison, a little girl grabbed her shirt and began to smile, she felt this was her calling to do something. Months later she decided to start a daycare program for children living in a bad home. This daycare program is for children under the age of six and a home for older children that provides education, food, and medical care. Before starting this program nobody believed in Pushpa. She wanted to prove to people that she could do this for herself and for the kids. She said, “Once I got started it wasn’t hard at all, the children's smiles keep me going. Our relationships are so strong, they have started calling me mom.” There are currently 40 kids in the older kids home and seven in the daycare. Without this organization a lot of kids could go without an education, so much as live on the streets. Pushpa is a women that helps out young children in need of a home, but there are many types of people that heroes help, such as the
“Water kills more children than HIV/AIDS and malaria combined. A child dies every 15 seconds without clean drinking water.”
Ever since that, he’s dreamed of building an organization that fights water related deaths and diseases. He decided to start raising money by selling wine. He made the wine himself with his bartending …show more content…
Pushpa Basnet is a hero. One day Pushpa visited a women's prison for her studies and was completely shocked by the conditions they were living in. While at the prison, a little girl grabbed her shirt and began to smile, she felt this was her calling to do something. Months later she decided to start a daycare program for children living in a bad home. This daycare program is for children under the age of six and a home for older children that provides education, food, and medical care. Before starting this program nobody believed in Pushpa. She wanted to prove to people that she could do this for herself and for the kids. She said, “Once I got started it wasn’t hard at all, the children's smiles keep me going. Our relationships are so strong, they have started calling me mom.” There are currently 40 kids in the older kids home and seven in the daycare. Without this organization a lot of kids could go without an education, so much as live on the streets. Pushpa is a women that helps out young children in need of a home, but there are many types of people that heroes help, such as the