Everyday Heroes
EVERYDAY HEROES
Everyday Heroes is a social initiative instituted in 2018 to honor ordinary people for their contribution to society.
The objective of recognizing the ordinary citizens who have devoted their lives towards shaping a better society. Honoring unsung heroes every year, the award acknowledges the service of people in diverse fields.
All over the world people are doing extraordinary things, amazing gestures of love, selfless gestures and heroic gestures to protect other people lives.
To honor these heroes, the World Record Academy launched the first ever "Everyday Heroes Awards".
2018 HONOREES
PARIS, France -- Mali immigrant Mamoudou Gassama
to get French citizenship and job as firefighter after scaling building to rescue dangling child.
French President Emmanuel Macron said that 22-year-old Mamoudou Gassama will be awarded for his “exceptional act” with legal papers, citizenship if he wants it and a job with the fire service.
"You saved a child. Without you, no one knows what would have become of him," the president said.
"You need courage and the capability to do that."
Working as a firefighter corresponds with his skills, Mr Macron said, and opened the door for him to join.
"You have become an example because millions have seen you" on social media, the president said. Photo: AFP
French President Emmanuel Macron said that 22-year-old Mamoudou Gassama will be awarded for his “exceptional act” with legal papers, citizenship if he wants it and a job with the fire service.
"You saved a child. Without you, no one knows what would have become of him," the president said.
"You need courage and the capability to do that."
Working as a firefighter corresponds with his skills, Mr Macron said, and opened the door for him to join.
"You have become an example because millions have seen you" on social media, the president said. Photo: AFP
LONDON, UK -- Romanian baker Florin Morariu,
32,
helped people hide in his bakery during the London Bridge attack then confronted the three three terrorists with crates when they launched their van and knife attack on 3 June 2017.
Eight people died when three men drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and launched a knife attack in Borough Market.
His "heroism" was praised by Theresa May in the House of Commons but the Romanian national said he "didn't need to be called a hero. I only need to be supported".
Afterwards, Mr Morariu was asked to leave his home by his landlady who feared reprisals from supporters of the attackers. He then returned to Romania for counseling and to try to get his life back on track.
Eight people died when three men drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and launched a knife attack in Borough Market.
His "heroism" was praised by Theresa May in the House of Commons but the Romanian national said he "didn't need to be called a hero. I only need to be supported".
Afterwards, Mr Morariu was asked to leave his home by his landlady who feared reprisals from supporters of the attackers. He then returned to Romania for counseling and to try to get his life back on track.
Tammie Jo Shults
(née Bonnell) is an American commercial airline captain and retired naval aviator. Known for being the first female F/A-18 Hornet pilot in the United States Navy, following active duty service, she subsequently became a pilot for Southwest Airlines.
On April 17, 2018, while flying Flight 1380 from New York to Dallas, an engine fan blade on the Boeing 737 failed and flying debris damaged the left side of the fuselage and one side window; the window failed, causing the plane to decompress.
One passenger was partially sucked through the damaged window and was later pronounced dead at the hospital.
Shults made an emergency descent and landed in Philadelphia. Her actions, calm demeanor, and competency during the emergency was noted by Southwest Airlines officials and passengers as well as Chesley Sullenberger, another commercial airline and former military pilot who controlled a similar situation in 2009 on US Airways Flight 1549.
Photo: Shults with a VAQ-34 F/A-18 Hornet. Womanpower in Naval Aviation / Naval Aviation News
On April 17, 2018, while flying Flight 1380 from New York to Dallas, an engine fan blade on the Boeing 737 failed and flying debris damaged the left side of the fuselage and one side window; the window failed, causing the plane to decompress.
One passenger was partially sucked through the damaged window and was later pronounced dead at the hospital.
Shults made an emergency descent and landed in Philadelphia. Her actions, calm demeanor, and competency during the emergency was noted by Southwest Airlines officials and passengers as well as Chesley Sullenberger, another commercial airline and former military pilot who controlled a similar situation in 2009 on US Airways Flight 1549.
Photo: Shults with a VAQ-34 F/A-18 Hornet. Womanpower in Naval Aviation / Naval Aviation News
Liviu Librescu
(August 18, 1930 – April 16, 2007) was a Romanian–American scientist and engineer, Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA, USA).
Librescu is most widely known for his actions during the Virginia Tech shooting, when he held the doors to his lecture hall closed, allowing all but one of his students enough time to escape through the windows.
Shot and killed during the attack, Librescu was posthumously awarded the Order of the Star of Romania, the country's highest civilian honor.
On April 18, 2007, then-President George W. Bush honored Librescu at a memorial service held at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “That day we saw horror, but we also saw quiet acts of courage. We saw this courage in a teacher named Liviu Librescu. With the gunman set to enter his class, this brave professor blocked the door with his body while his students fled to safety. This Holocaust survivor gave his own life so that others may live.” Photo: AGERPRES
Librescu is most widely known for his actions during the Virginia Tech shooting, when he held the doors to his lecture hall closed, allowing all but one of his students enough time to escape through the windows.
Shot and killed during the attack, Librescu was posthumously awarded the Order of the Star of Romania, the country's highest civilian honor.
On April 18, 2007, then-President George W. Bush honored Librescu at a memorial service held at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “That day we saw horror, but we also saw quiet acts of courage. We saw this courage in a teacher named Liviu Librescu. With the gunman set to enter his class, this brave professor blocked the door with his body while his students fled to safety. This Holocaust survivor gave his own life so that others may live.” Photo: AGERPRES
Chesley Burnett "Sully" Sullenberger III
(born January 23, 1951) is a retired American airline captain celebrated for the January 15, 2009 water landing of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River off Manhattan after the plane was disabled by striking a flock of Canada geese immediately after takeoff; all 155 people aboard survived.
Sullenberger said later: "It was very quiet as we worked, my copilot Jeff Skiles and I. We were a team. But to have zero thrust coming out of those engines was shocking—the silence." Sullenberger was the last to leave the aircraft, after making sure all passengers and crew had evacuated.
Photo: AP
Sullenberger said later: "It was very quiet as we worked, my copilot Jeff Skiles and I. We were a team. But to have zero thrust coming out of those engines was shocking—the silence." Sullenberger was the last to leave the aircraft, after making sure all passengers and crew had evacuated.
Photo: AP
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Toma Pradatu was deputy secretary general of the Romanian Gymnastics Federation.
He fell victim to an armed attack in Caracas, Venezuela, where he defended his body bag with the gymnasts' passports and money. "It happened on March 20, 1998. Everything left me so fresh in my memory. And now I have the faces of the attackers. "
The bullet passed through the shoulder blade, punctured his lung, and then touched his spine, dividing his spinal cord. He spent a month in hospital in Venezuela. Then he came home paralyzed. Now he's in a wheelchair. Photo: Prosport
He fell victim to an armed attack in Caracas, Venezuela, where he defended his body bag with the gymnasts' passports and money. "It happened on March 20, 1998. Everything left me so fresh in my memory. And now I have the faces of the attackers. "
The bullet passed through the shoulder blade, punctured his lung, and then touched his spine, dividing his spinal cord. He spent a month in hospital in Venezuela. Then he came home paralyzed. Now he's in a wheelchair. Photo: Prosport
The Passengers and Crew of Flight 93
Stoystown, PA, USA -- United Airlines Flight 93 was a domestic scheduled passenger flight that was hijacked by four Al-Qaeda terrorists on board, as part of the September 11 attacks. It crashed into a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, during an attempt by the passengers and crew to regain control.
All 44 people aboard were killed, including the four hijackers, but no one on the ground was injured.
The aircraft involved, a Boeing 757–222, was flying United Airlines' daily scheduled morning flight from Newark International Airport in New Jersey to San Francisco International Airport in California.
Of the four aircraft hijacked on September 11 – the others were American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175 and American Airlines Flight 77 – United Airlines Flight 93 was the only aircraft that did not reach its hijackers' intended target.
Vice President Dick Cheney, in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center deep under the White House, authorized Flight 93 to be shot down, but upon learning of the crash, is reported to have said, "I think an act of heroism just took place on that plane."
Stoystown, PA, USA -- United Airlines Flight 93 was a domestic scheduled passenger flight that was hijacked by four Al-Qaeda terrorists on board, as part of the September 11 attacks. It crashed into a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, during an attempt by the passengers and crew to regain control.
All 44 people aboard were killed, including the four hijackers, but no one on the ground was injured.
The aircraft involved, a Boeing 757–222, was flying United Airlines' daily scheduled morning flight from Newark International Airport in New Jersey to San Francisco International Airport in California.
Of the four aircraft hijacked on September 11 – the others were American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175 and American Airlines Flight 77 – United Airlines Flight 93 was the only aircraft that did not reach its hijackers' intended target.
Vice President Dick Cheney, in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center deep under the White House, authorized Flight 93 to be shot down, but upon learning of the crash, is reported to have said, "I think an act of heroism just took place on that plane."