Every September , CNN Hero ##ine Parness organizes help for a disaster - stricken community . For Parness , a native New Yorker , the work carried extra significance . The goal is to spread the kind of help that New York received after the 9/11 attacks . Many of the volunteers have been homeless in the past and want to ` ` " it forward ''
Every September , CNN Hero ##ine Parness organizes help for a disaster - stricken community . The goal is to spread the kind of help that New York received after the 9/11 attacks . Many of the volunteers have been homeless in the past and want to ` ` " it forward ''