Just two weeks after his wedding, Christophe Quancard was diagnosed with glioblastoma, one of the deadliest types of brain tumors. Go to Source

After her own son died, Catalina Escobar embarked on a personal war on poverty and breaking the generational cycle of teen pregnancy. Twelve years later, she’s helped 2,000 young women. “These teen mothers are my own daughters,” Escobar says. Go to Source

For 25 years, Sister Teresa Fitzgerald has been reaching out to mothers behind bars. Go to Source

Johanna Crawford was volunteering for a domestic violence shelter in 2003 when she answered a hot line call she will never forget. Go to Source

Brian Munyai has spent nearly all of his 22 years living in a one-room shack that has never had electricity or running water. Go to Source

Shortly after joining the Lake Mary Police Department in 2007, Zach Hudson was dispatched to the home of two elderly women. Go to Source

Jackson Kaguri escaped poverty, earned a college degree and was living the American dream. But when he went back to his old village in Uganda, he realized he had to do something. Go to Source

Do you know an everyday person changing the world? It’s easy to nominate them as a CNN Hero. Go to Source

Five years ago, Leo McCarthy lost his 14-year-old daughter, Mariah, when a drunken driver hit her and two of her friends as they walked down a sidewalk near her home. But he refused to let her tragic death become just another statistic. Go to Source

A trip to the grocery store used to send James McQuoid into a panic. When the Iraq War veteran heard a child crying, he would remember kids screaming in Fallujah. But things are getting better now that he has Iggie by his side. Go to Source

In the movies, it’s a familiar storyline: superheroes joining forces to tackle a world crisis. Go to Source

Jackson Kaguri escaped poverty, earned a college degree and was living the American dream. But when he went back to his old village in Uganda, he realized he had to do something. Go to Source