Fwd: Please vote for Narayanan Krishnan to win the CNN Hero of the Year award and help support this noble cause!!! Spread the word around!!!
Guruprasad Navada
Also worth reading the article on CNN about all these heroes!!
In case you have not heard about this, you should read
and vote.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cnn.heroes/archive10/naryanan.krishnan.html
PLEASE VOTE
If you had not heard of Narayanan Krishnan, as I had not, it is a collective
failure. This is one of the most incredible stories of personal commitment.
Narayanan Krishnan, all of 29 years old now, does what he was professionally
trained to do as a chef. Feed people. Only Krishnan does not do this in the
swanky confines of a 5-star hotel. Every day, he wakes up at 4 am, cooks a
simple hot meal and then, along with his team, loads it in a van and travels
about 200 km feeding the homeless in Madurai
, Tamil Nadu.
Krishnan feeds, often with his hands, almost 400 destitute people every day.
And for those who need it, he provides a free haircut too.
According to CNN, eight years ago, this award-winning chef with a five-star
hotel chain was all set to go to Switzerland for a high-profile
posting. On a visit to a Madurai
temple, he came across a homeless, old man eating his own human waste. That
stark sight changed Krishnan's life.
Much to the dismay of his parents, CNN says, Krishnan abandoned his career plans
and decided to spend his life and his professional training in looking after
those who could not care for themselves. He has provided more than 1.2 million
hot meals through his nonprofit organisation Akshaya Trust, and now hopes to
extend this to shelter for the homeless too.
Krishnan is the only Indian in a list of 10 heroes that CNN has picked
worldwide to honour. One of them will be chosen CNN Hero of the Year, selected
by the public through an online poll. If many Indians get together to vote for
this inspiring man, he can win by a long mile.
If Krishnan wins he will get $100,000 in addition to the $25,000 that he gets
for being shortlisted for the Top 10. Akshaya Trust needs all the
monetary support it can get to build on Krishnan's dream. Let's help him get
there.
Vote for Krishnan here. <http://heroes.cnn.com/vote.aspx> The
poll continues through November 18 at 6 a.m. ET.
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Regards,
Guruprasad Navada