I voted for Doc Hendley for CNN’s top hero. He is a local boy, graduating in 1997 from Ragsdale High School here in North Carolina, and he’s truly making a difference in the world.

Doc is working to bring clean drinking water to more than 26,000 people in countries like Cambodia and Sudan and Peru. He’s built wells in 6 countries already and started the non-profit group Wine to Water.

This group builds wells and trains people to build and fix wells and to install special bio-filters that can clean water.

The winner of the CNN contest receives $100,000 for his or her program. You can vote as many times as you like.  The winner will be announced Thanksgiving night.

My passion is clean water for the world. What’s yours? What are you doing about it? Click on the link above and check out the extraordinary people CNN has found, everyday people like you and me, doing things that really matter. Vote for your favorite and do something today to make a difference in your world.