Nelly Cheboi, who creates computer labs for Kenyan schoolchildren, is CNN's Hero of the Year

Celebrities and musicians are coming together tonight to honor everyday people making the world a better place.

This is a summary provided by CNN — World. Read the complete story on the publisher’s website.

Continue reading at CNN — World ↗

Cookie settings

Choose which cookies we may use. You can change this at any time from Cookie settings in the footer. Details of each cookie are in the Cookie Policy.

Strictly necessary

Needed for sign-in, security, payments and remembering these choices. Always on.

Preferences

Remember settings such as dark mode.

Analytics

Help us understand visits and countries – anonymous and aggregated.

Marketing

Used to measure and personalise adverts and social media content.