Good News

On Saturday by chance I watched CNN, something I hadn't done in ages. The show playing was called "CNN Heroes. I thought it would another canonization of war veterans. I was about to change the channel when the story of one of the heroes began. She was not a war veteran or a soldier of any kind; she was simply using her life to help others. And she was not the only hero that night; there were a total of ten, men and women, young and old. Here are some of them:

• a former babysitter from New Jersey fell in love with a country halfway around the world, Nepal, and used her babysitting savings to start a home and school for women and children.
• Dr. Jim Withers has taken his medical practice to the streets of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, offering free, quality health care to the homeless.
• Monique Pool has dedicated herself to helping wild animals in the South American country of Suriname. Pool has rescued, rehabilitated and released hundreds of sloths and other mammals back to the rainforest.
• In rural Conetoe, North Carolina, Richard Joyner has brought a bounty of food to what was a nutritional desert. Joyner, a local pastor, started a community garden after watching many of his parishioners die from preventable diseases. "Diabetes, high blood pressure -- when we first got started, we counted 30 funerals in one year," Joyner said.
• Iraq and Afghanistan combat veteran Sean Gobin's nonprofit, Warrior Hike, has a unique way to help combat vets process their troubling war experiences. Gobin calls it, "walking off the war."
• His nonprofit, Sustainable Innovations, created a rainwater harvesting system that now provides life-changing, safe drinking water to more than 10,000 people across six villages in the driest region of India.

It would be nice if some of the media reported on some of these people.