I was looking at CNN's site, and I clicked on the Heroes section. This is just a sample of some of the 'heroes' according to CNN.

Nthabeleng Lephoto
Nthabeleng Lephoto has dedicated her life to helping children left sick or orphaned by HIV in Lesotho in southern Africa. Today, she is "head mother" of Touching Tiny Lives, a nonprofit organization that has provided more than 120 children with food, medical care -- and love.

Dr. Trey Wilson
In Kenya, there is one dentist for every 60,000 people, according to the World Health Organization. In response, Dr. Trey Wilson founded Tabasamu ("smile" in Swahili), a dental outreach program. Last year, his program reported treating more than 1,200 people in Kenya -- free of charge.

Margery Kabuya
In Kenya, girls in traditional Maasai culture are often promised to a husband before they are born, with little chance of receiving an education. Working with the Christian Children's Fund, Margery Kabuya set up a boarding school and persuaded tribe elders to permit young girls to receive at least eight years of schooling before marriage.

Matt and Jessica Flannery
Matt and Jessica Flannery founded Kiva.org, a person-to-person microcredit Web site. Kiva -- "unity" in Swahili -- lets people make loans as small as $25 to entrepreneurs in developing countries. In two years, it has brokered more than $6.5 million in collateral-free loans to more than 9,000 businesses.

Mathias Craig
Many of Nicaragua's poorest and most isolated communities do not have electricity. Mathias Craig helped start "blueEnergy," a non-profit company that has brought sustainable energy -- generated by wind turbines -- to six communities on Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast.

Thabiti Boone
Growing up in East New York, Thabiti Boone was a local basketball star with dreams of making it to the NBA. At 19, he was a single dad who decided to put fatherhood first. That commitment led him back to his community, where he runs a literacy program integrating sports and hip-hop music that has helped raise reading scores at several Brooklyn schools.

Bob Nameng
Kliptown, Soweto, is a shantytown plagued by poverty and crime. As an orphaned street child, Bob Nameng grew up there. As an adult, he founded SKY -- the Soweto Kliptown Youth Foundation. Each week, it offers hundreds of children meals, sports and cultural activities -- all for free.

Zach Hunter
At 15, Zach Hunter of Atlanta, Georgia, has personally raised more than $20,000 to help free slaves around the world. His campaign, Loose Change to Loosen Chains, encourages students to donate spare change to groups working to end worldwide oppression. More than 30 schools now support his cause.

Ryan Hreljac
According to UNICEF, one of every six people on Earth lacks access to safe drinking water. Sixteen-year-old Ryan Hreljac, who lives near Ottawa, Ontario, is working to change that. To date, the Ryan's Well Foundation has built 266 wells in 12 developing countries, bringing clean water to more than 435,000 people.

Ana Dodson
While only 4 weeks old, Ana Dodson was adopted from Peru by a couple living in the U.S. state of Colorado. After Ana's first visit to her native country in 2003, she started Peruvian Hearts. To date, it has raised nearly $40,000 for orphans living the life that could have been hers.

The only one commended for doing anything noteworthy and practically useful.

Savannah Walters
According to the U.S. Energy Department, American drivers waste more than 1 billion gallons of gas a year by driving on underinflated tires. Savannah Walters, 14, started "Pump 'Em Up," a nonprofit group that has distributed 10,000 tire gauges at events in 15 states and encourages motorists to check their tire pressure.