CNN Hero of the Year is Fil-Am Robin Lim
CNN named it's 2011 Hero of the Year and she's none other than Fil-Am midwife Robin Lim!
Filipino-American midwife Robin Lim was named the 2011 CNN Hero of the Year during the awarding ceremony held Sunday evening at The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, U.S.A.
54-year-old Lim, born to a Filipino mother and an American father and was raised in the Philippines, bested 9 other finalists from around the world.
According to CNN, Lim, whose mother is a Filipino-Chinese, put up “birthing sanctuaries" for Indonesians in need of maternal and general health care.
In her “Meet the Hero" interview, Lim said it is common in Indonesia to hold babies in the hospital until the bills have been paid.
Lim said mothers should only worry about delivering their babies safely and not about how they should pay the hospital where they gave birth.
Lim brought home $250,000 for being named the 5th CNN Hero of the Year in addition to the $50,000 that she received after making it to the Top 10.
In 2009, Filipino Efren Peñaflorida was named CNN Hero of the Year for his Kariton classroom project, which brought the classrooms to children in the streets.
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