♪ from the american museum of natural history in new york city, this is cnn heroes. an all-star tribute. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome your host for the evening, anderson cooper. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. welcome to cnn heroes, an all-star tribute. today we're gathered in this amazing room to celebrate extraordinary men and women who highlight the best of what

humanity has to offer. tonight you're going to meet heroes who remind us that compassion and kindness are still very present, very much alive in the world today. among other things, they are bringing health care to the homeless, supporting combat veterans, caring for kids in the poorest parts of the world, even rescuing sloths in south america. i will tell you right now, i am obsessed with sloths. i don't know if you know anything about sloths, they sleep 18 hours a day, poop once a week. it ael's the life i aspire to. my great friend kelly ripa is here with her husband mark consuelas. another great friend of mine is here who harasses me all yearlong but never so much as on new year's eve. she sends me completely inappropriate text messages,

dirty, dirty pictures of herself. kathy griffith is here. i am watching you, kathy, i am watching you. now throughout the night as you meet our cnn heroes, i hope you'll be inspired to get involved with their causes. can you go to cnn heroes.com and you can interact. while you're watching you can get involved on facebook and twitter and instagram. see behind the scenes pictures from tonight's event. cnn has given each of our top ten honorees $10,000 so they can continue to do their important work. and later tonight one of the honorees will be named the 2015 cnn hero of the year, and they will receive an additional $100,000. [ applause ] so let's begin tonight, let's meet our first cnn hero. on any given night, nearly half a million people are homeless in the united states of america. many are experiencing a temporary crisis. they're living in a shelter, but

15% of them are chronically homeless. they live with serious medical conditions, heart disease, diabetes, mental illness. our next hero seeks these men and women out to bring them care in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. to tell us about his remarkable work is a proud supporter of direct relief which provides essential services for people in need and disasters as well as support of the trevor project, he's the star of the upcoming film "snowden", please welcome, zachary quinto. >> do i matter. when it's 10 degrees outside, the wind's blowing, and all you've got is a cardboard box in an alley, you're thinking, do i matter at all to the people passing me by. every day in my hometown, dr. jim withers makes sure they know the answer. 23 years ago, he rubbed dirt in his hair, muddled up his clothes

to go out and get to know the runaway teenagers, pregnant mothers, elderly men on the street. he started operation safety net to bring them medical care. now he has a drop-in center, mobile van and a clinic too. and he's reached more than 10,000 individuals and helped 1200 of them transition into housing. and when he's treating someone, he embraces them, looks them in the eye, says their name and tells them in no uncertain terms, yes, you matter. ♪ >> did they put staples in or stitches? >> yeah, they put staples in. >> let me take a look. any bad headaches or anything? >> yeah, i've had some bad headaches. >> look off toward the bumper of that car. >> i've been walking the streets of pittsburgh for 23 years.

c >> can you make a fist? th that hurt? the truth is anyone one of us d end up there. we try to keep our team to four people. it can be a challenge to keep up with where the camps are, how many people are living in places that you'd never want to live. >> safety net. we've got some food, some water. i've got dr. withers with me today. >> we always try to check in on how they're doing medically, do they have their medicines. >> tegretol? >> so these are 100 milligrams. >> we record what we've done in a confidential record. >> good to see you. >> it's really like you would do in an office. >> chest pain or? >> no. >> it's like too tight. >> the skin's too tight?

>> yeah, too tight. >> so you build trust with folks whose trust has been broken. >> have you ever tried to hurt yourself before? >> i mean, it's real hard. >> you're not alone. we'll be there for you. >> it takes time. takes sincerity, flexibility and a sense of humor. we try to have a good selection that will cover all the different kinds of illnesses. we have bags that are for pain relief, antibiotics. i kind of had to make this up when i started. it's an ongoing presence that tries to improve how healthy they are. >> what hurts the most? >> this knee is so swollen. >> it's not hard to go out to see them. it's hard going home at night and knowing there are still people sleeping out there. once you know they're there, it

haunts you. maybe society doesn't have time to get to know the people and to see the value and strength in people. all i would really ask is that we don't judge people that we don't know. don't judge people unless you've walked in their shoes. i think the take home message is that you matter as a human being. good and steady. you've got a good heart. and people need to feel that and hear that. and once they do, i think their healing begins. all right. i'll see you next time. love you. >> love you too. [ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, please join me in honoring cnn hero, dr. jim withers. [ applause ] ♪

>> to be honest, i didn't go under bridges to save homeless people. i went there to save myself. and perhaps my profession. our society is losing its humanity, and only by reaching out for the people that have been tossed aside can we regain it. the real heroes are our brothers and sisters who suffer while we stand by and judge them from a distance. go to the people. work with them to find solutions. this is what the global street medicine movement is doing. thank you, and god bless. [ applause ] ♪

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♪ [ applause ] hey, welcome back to cnn heroes. throughout tonight's broadcast, we hope you go to cnn heroes.com to learn about our honorees. if you can donate, every dollar helps and helps them to continue their life-changing work. you can join us on facebook, twitter, instagram. take a look at one of the photos that was just potasted. there is actually a sloth playing piano back stage. i don't know why. according to the world health organization in nepal, more than a quarter of the country lives in poverty. in its rural areas that number rises to nearly half. that life is especially hard on children. many are orphans. they receive really no formal education, and many spend their days hammering rocks into

pebbles to earn money. here to tell us about this, a champion who helps girls in the developing world, she's star of "ely's no kiss list" victoria justice. [ applause ] >> in 2006, a high school graduate from new jersey didn't know what she wanted to do, so she took a year off to travel the world. she helped a team rebuild a sea wall in fiji and spent time in a buddhist monastery. then she went to nepal and to a river bed where she met a little girl in a tattered dress. and the simple greeting, maggie decided to support that girl. maggie stayed in nepal and knew she had to do more. she called her parents and asked for the $5,000 she saved from

babysitting to start the children's home. today almost 50 children live there because they needed a place to grow up and feel safe. she also started a school where 350 kids can learn. and all this started because maggie had the courage to go out into the world and find her calling. >> there is something naïve w h about it, i think. like i can take on the world. morning. wake up time. everything that happened to me happened like that. time for breakfast. i'm now 28 years old. and the most proud mother. time to get up for school, sweetie. we're a family of almost 50 kids. we're home! yay! we started with just one child, and then it grew to five. then it became 30, and that kid

comes in that you just can't say no to. it's life or death. good morning rafi. >> ravi is the judgest youngest family. he came to us at 4 pounds. he was a sack of bones. he had to be resuscitated. he had to be on a vent later. and he is just a miracle baby. when you walk in the front gates, you don't see what the kids have been through in their past. you see healthy, laughing, thriving kids. we wake up in the morning and go off to school. and then come home and do homework and eat our meals together and everybody goes to bed at night. >> goodnight, mom. >> i love you. >> i can't imagine our family without a single one of them. as the home grew, the project

really grew. i asked the community what they thought would really change and impact the region. and everybody agreed on the same thing. our children need quality education. we have created one of the top performing schools in the entire region. you got it. our kids are the poorest of the poor. the ones who aren't supposed to make it. after a couple of years here, they're just so healthy. it's amazing to watch that transformation. we call it the kopila effect. tema was the first girl i enrolled into school. she was a rock breaker to make the income to support her family. they were just children. they were doing that all day, every day. tema now is doing amazing. her family's running a little shop. her brother is now in our school. her mom is working at our

women's center. i said to myself, one day i'm going to walk across this dry river bed, and there's not going to be a single kid breaking river stone. and today there's not a single kid because they're all in our school. most women my age definitely have a different reality. but i have everything i need and all the love in the world. ♪ we love each other like a sister or brother ♪ ♪ because we are one family [ applause ] >> please join me in honoring cnn hero, maggie doyne. ♪ [ applause ]

>> i am so incredibly honored to accept this award on behalf of all of my little heroes in nepal at kopila. i draw all of my inspiration from them. there is no time to waste. if you are educated and free and empowered and safe, you have to use your strength, your power and your gifts to help the rest of our human family. i'm also so grateful to my co-founder who's here with me tonight and to the family and to everyone who's had the faith in our vision. we cannot lose sight of the task at hand. change the world in a blink of an eye. thank you. [ applause ] ♪ >> we love you, mom! we love you, mom! yeah! yeah! coming up on cnn heroes,

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heroes." you may not know this, but the united states leads the industrialized world with a number of homeless women and children. many of the women are victims of domestic violence, some are just getting out of prison. our next hero focuses her work on rebuilding these women's lives in california in san bernardino county. to share her extraordinary story, supporter of the representation project that ends stereotypes and stop social injustices. emmy nominated star of "orange is the new black." i'm a huge fan. taylor schilling. ♪ [ applause ] >> when we see a homeless woman and she's high, covered head to toe in filth, or she's crying, most of the time we look away, cross the street, but kim carter doesn't because she survived that journey to the depths of despair. at 5 years old, she was given

her first drink. at 17, she took a hit of crack cocaine and was hooked. for more than a decade, she lived in alleys and abandoned buildings, had a daughter and gave her up, and cycled in and out of prison. during her last time inside, kim enrolled in a rehabilitation program and worked for her second chance. she rebuilt her life with a new home, a new job, and she reconnected with her daughter. and in 2002, she wanted to help other women do the same and started the time for change foundation. kim and her staff have provided counseling, childcare, and job training to hundreds of women and children as they transition into permanent housing. kim and the women and children she's helped are why we have to stop crossing that street. we must stand with them, get to know them, so they can find their second chance and realize the potential that resides in their hearts, too. >> this is my old housing unit

right here. when i was deepest in my addiction, i didn't see a light at the end of the tunnel. i never thought about life. i never thought about saving myself. but after i became a mother, it became haunting. so this is it. this is my bunk right here. i spent years laying right here. this is the reality of what my life had came to this 2 x 4. you can almost touch the wall. that's how tight it is in here. sometimes when i went to jail, it was a blessing because i was able to lay down and i was able to sleep and i would be let out again back out into homelessness. good morning, family. good afternoon, family. how you all doing today? so my name is kim carter.

and i say it so you can know that i am you and you are me. my last time in prison, sitting there thinking, what happened? there wasn't one thing that happened. a lot of things happened. don't give up on yourself because you still worthy. what option does a woman with nothing have to start over? >> i've been homeless almost six months. >> we meet women where they are. the bus station, at the hospital, coming out of jail. we'll pick them up and put them into an environment where they can heal. >> it's a frightening experience. it's frightening. >> my goal is for them to leave fully self-sufficient and to get their children back. >> he was just very abusive. when i left, i left with

nothing. i got my two girls and left. we were sleeping in the car, in motels. anywhere where i could put their little heads down to sleep. i worked so hard to not lose them. i haven't had my girls for a year and two months now. ♪ it's been a long, long journey. fighting for them. trying to get them back. thank you, miss carter. thank you. >> i can't make up for the time that i lost with my daughter, but i can help make sure another mother doesn't lose time with theirs. i'm here. i'm not on the margins of society no more. i'm part of society. i'm a change agent. who knew?

[ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, please join me in honoring cnn hero, kim carter. ♪ [ applause ] >> if my life's work has to be measured, and my determination, let it reflect that i do what i do because i love my daughter. i love my daughter. and i live with this pain

because i wasn't able to be there for her when she was young. see, there was no time for change foundation there for me. but see, my god, he allowed me to make sure that no other mother has to go separated from her kids because she might need some help or because she might be homeless. that's what my god allows. where that pain is in me, that's where i find my passion and purpose. that's where i find my dedication at. i get to help women reclaim their children, become those nurturing parents they always wanted to be. the work that i do, this is like the air that i breathe, so i can't stop. thank you. ♪ [ applause ] throughout the night while

you're watching, connect on facebook, on twitter, on instagram. we continue our tradition of honoring young people also making a difference. at cnn, we call these inspiring kids young wonders. ours first young wondering is tackling an important issue. in the united states one in six kids between the ages of 3 and 17 live with a developmental disability. something like autism or down syndrome. for those who want to play on a sports team, their choices are limited. our first young wonder loves to play ice hockey and wanted to create something specifically designed for these kids. here to share his story is a canadian which means naturally he's been an ice hockey fan since birth, which frankly was not that young ago. he's the star of the powerful new film, "room," please welcome jacob tremblay. ♪

>> isaiah granet, let me tell you why he is a great person. he knows every child is amazing and some need a little bit of extra help. when i say some kids can't be on a hockey team just because of who they are, he created one for them. they get to skate every weekend and make friends. the san diego chill, they're my favorite team. you know why? because he's more than just the coach, he's a cool kid with a heart of gold. >> i love ice hockey. i love the feel of when i'm skating. the wind on my face. and the puck on your stick. it's such a rush. i wanted to help kids with developmental disabilities play the sport i love and cherish so much. my challenge for you guys is to skate across the ice. no coach's help. >> yes. >> they were working on stopping. every saturday we want our players to see their friends and their teammates.

now you can go. we want them to feel joy coming into the rink. way to go. way to go. you see how much faster you are when you use your left foot? the majority of our coaches are in their teen years. >> you can do it. there you go. >> players know that while they're out there and their coach is there, they will be safe. that is huge for them. >> casey bonds really well when she has the boy coaches. she's the typical teenager. i think for her, she just really wants to do well for them. >> so proud of you. >> good job. >> just a little action. a little time out of your day can make such a big difference in someone's life. i can't think of a better use of my time. when i see a player smile, it makes it all worth it. [ applause ]

>> ladies and gentlemen, please join me in a big hand for our young wonder, isaiah granet. [ applause ] ♪ coming up next, common. and later, kelly ripa. "cnn heroes: an all-star tribute" is sponsored by humana. helping to close the gap between you and the care you deserve. we value sticking with things.

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welcome back to "cnn heroes." we are very grateful for everyone who donated their time to be here and help us on our heroes. once again, we tried to get my friend, wolf blitzer, to come, but of course he's preparing for an upcoming debate. he's very busy down in washington, d.c. take a look at what he's doing right now. ♪ >> he loves drake's "hot line bling." i don't know what it is about wolf. tonight there are a lot of different ways for you to interact. i want to show you right now, my background is a sloth. don't judge me, kathy griffin. you can go to our facebook page over here. just want to show you. go to our facebook page right now, talk about what's going on. you can also go to our twitter page, join the conversation, and you can even join us on instagram and see behind the scenes pictures.

when you learn about our heroes i hope they'll inspire you to get involved in one way or another. in the struggling neighborhoods of chicago, death, shootings and violent crimes are often daily occurrences. those victims are overwhelming the emergency rooms and the operating tables. that means many are on medicaid, many of the uninsured, the underinsured, they see their health care delay. here to tell us about a doctor who's been serving chicago's underserved for 20 years. he's a proud supporter of the campaign to end violence in chicago. academy and award winning artist, common. >> treat first. that's the mantra of the biggest, boldest, bad ass doctor in my hometown of chicago.

dr. daniel ivankovich is an orthopedic surgeon who has seen it all. broken bones. twisted knees. bad backs. dislocated joints. all treatable conditions, but for those living in the roughest neighborhoods, treatment isn't easy. they don't have a lot of money. they're on medicaid and they don't have insurance. so they're told to wait. months, sometimes years would go by while they lived in pain and their conditions worsened. dr. dan said, enough is enough. and co-founded the onepatient global health initiative which runs three clinics and performs more than 600 surgeries a year. many of them for free. [ applause ]

he drives around with his skull rings, leather cowboy hat, and tells the people that he sees them, hears them, and wants them to get well. treat first. that's the doctor dan way. >> i've been serving in these communities for the past 20 years. jackson and laramie is where one of our clinics used to be. we had to leave because over the course of a year, we witnessed four murders. it was like we're in the middle of a war zone. can i get the smothered chicken? this restaurant i've been coming to for years. it's the best food in the city. thank you very much. you guys enjoy your meal. have a beautiful day. >> awesome. we're on the west side and the west side is a rough side.

living in these communities with the threat of violence constantly in the air truly affects how people live their lives. during my training the gang violence was never ending. serving a large population of gang bangers, the problem is you're constantly fixing the same people over and over again. you're basically putting a band-aid on a major problem. many patients with knee arthritis, with bad backs, they kept getting put to the back of the line. how is it that the people that are doing bad things are getting the priority, and the people that are just good people that happen to be poor are are being ignored by the system? i just said, you know what, i need to take care of these people. have a seat. how are your knees feeling? >> they're feeling better. >> we want to try and bayou more time for your knees, so the knee replacement is going to be sort

of the last thing when everything else fails. >> you will surely find a way before you start cutting, chop, chop. that's one thing i like coming to you because you are more entwined with us. >> see you in a couple weeks. >> hope so. >> the goal is going to be to have these legs be parallel. we'll be good to go. ricardo garcia. to the left. >> ten years ago i was in a hit-and-run. broke my back. broke my hip. shattered both legs. i was left for dead. i did not have health insurance at the time. i was told i had to leave the hospital. my legs are still broken mind knees are still broken. >> we call it treat them and street them. nobody is offering them a definitive solution to their problem. left knee's been great? >> left knee is awesome. >> even if i got to do a crazy incision, i would try to do one. >> i had about eight doctors turn me away. he fixed me when no one else

would or could. he looks at me as a person, not as a number. >> i don't see barriers. i see solutions. from the day i started, i saw that not all people were treated equally. >> there you go. >> people want to live and they want to love. they want to laugh. my goal for my patients is to just give them their life back. i want to be the battering ram to try and level the playing field. [ applause ] >> as you can see, this guy is very cool. please join me in honoring cnn hero, dr. daniel ivankovich. ♪ [ applause ]

>> thanks. thank you. you may say i'm a dreamer, but i'm not the only one. in the world that i see, everybody matters, and nobody is invisible. especially poor people. people of color and people with disabilities. i serve as one example that everyone can care enough to fight for what is right. i hope that my efforts inspire others to follow. it's an honor to be recognized as a cnn hero. to my family and kids, for supporting me and putting up with those 120-hour workweeks and to my dear wife, karla. she transforms lives with me on chicago's front lines every day. i wouldn't be here tonight without you. peace and love. [ applause ] >> thank you, dr. dan!

>> for helping to fix my knee. >> for bringing my leg back to life. >> and giving us hope. >> yay. coming up, justin theroux, and later kathy griffin honors a hero who's helping our combat veterans. "cnn heroes: an all-star tribute" is sponsored by microsoft. empowering us all. a new pen for new masterpieces. new speakers for a new sound. we reinvented the surface pro. so you can reinvent everything else.

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welcome back. while you're watching at home if you'd like to help out one of more-our top ten heroes, your donations will make a real difference. please do it now at cnnheroes.com. the dakota sioux nations stretches across 3 million acres of land including the sheyenne river reservation.heyenne river reservatiocheyenne river reservation. 10,000 native americans work to

keep their community together fighting against poverty, unemployment, addiction, suicide. to tell us how our next hero is helping, here's justin theroux. [ applause ] >> we all have that promise we made years ago that's gone unfulfilled. we think it's too late to do anything about it, but rochelle ripley shows us it is never too late to keep your word. 45 years, that's how long it took rochelle to honor her promise to her grandmother. when she was young and visiting her grandmother's farm in indiana, she told rochelle stories about her native american heritage and asked rochelle one day go and help the lakota people. it wasn't until rochelle's own granddaughter was born that she finally made that journey. what she saw was this. the spirit of the people was inspiring, but the conditions were deplorable. and in 1998, she started hawkwing. to date, she and her volunteers have delivered more than $9 million in goods and services. what used to be an unfulfilled promise is now a labor of love. and her incredible work has earned her the beautiful,

powerful, and fitting name. >> we call her, means you're helping, people, women. she's helping us a lot on this reservation. she never gave up on us. >> part of the reservation we're going to right now is the poorest part of the reservation. it's going to be a dirt road all the way in to cherry creek. the lakota reservations are very isolated. it's a very large landmass with about 10,000 people living on the reservation. the irony on cheyenne river is it's one of the most beautiful places you can come to. the sunsets are extraordinary. the people are loving and wonderful. that is contrasted with this immense poverty.

you have extremely high rates of suicide, addictions. the spirit of the people is here. it's alive. but they struggle with the conditions tremendously. >> thank you. >> health issues are another huge challenge. >> you got 11 people in your house. i'm going to give you a couple of these. diabetes, cancer, heart disease are all major issues. so have them back here at noon. we're going to feed you. we have all kinds of stuff. food often is in very short supply. it's both nutritiously insufficient and inadequate in quantity. and you have homelessness on top of houses that no one should actually be living in. we're going to be helping a family where the mom has unfortunately gone blind. >> and we're almost to the front door. >> at first, i was traumatized,

because i was blind. all my electricity outlets and stuff were no good. and it could have been a house fire. >> they want to get the floor down tonight so that's secure for you. we're doing as much as we can to make her house safe for her. >> it's even more newer in here. i can't see it, but i feel it. >> we really do work collaboratively with the tribe everywhere we go. >> i know she has a lot of respect. she comes to the leadership and asks what are the needs of our people. she's a very responsive person. >> how are you? >> when i come here, there's a connectedness to the people and to the land. they say when i get here, welcome home. the sky is immense, the stars are magnificent.

there's a beauty and a magic here that everyone feels. we're all humans. we're all children of this earth, and we need to work together so that everyone has a chance at having a decent life. [ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, please join me in honoring cnn hero, rochelle ripley. [ applause ] ♪ >> thank you. the vastness of the great plains of america makes you feel like you can touch the sky. but beneath that sky, the suffering is equally vast. here live the children america has left behind. please join hawk wing to bring help and hope to the children, parents, veterans and elders of the cheyenne river lakota sioux

tribe. from the bottom of my heart and that of the tribe, great thanks to cnn heroes and each of you. for my grandma and my son in spirit and my daughter who's here with me tonight, you are my heart. [ applause ] ♪ next, neil patrick harris, and later tonight we'll reveal the 2015 cnn hero of the year. cnn heroes, an all-star tribute is sponsored by geico. proudly highlighting those people who are impacting our world every day. cting our world every day. ting our world every day. ing our world every day.

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this is all i need. this is a sloth. her name is snooki, i'm not kidding. i wish i made that up, but i didn't. she's an animal ambassador, and we're very grateful that the leo conservation center sent her to us. our next hero is from surnam in south america. she likes you to blow in her face, but frankly, who doesn't? [ laughter ] >> in surnam, 90% of the country is filled with forest. the most of any country in the world. but as urban areas grow, the habitat of sloths is being threatened. to tell us how the next hero is working to protect sloths, and so many causes, my friend neil patrick harris.

♪ [ applause ] >> thanks, anderson. how refreshing to observe a snooki with no spray tan. we all love animals, and it is heartbreaking when someone has to search for a lost dog. one day monique poole looked everywhere for hers. when she kwoncolduldn't find it, when she called the local animal shelter, they didn't have her dog, but they had a sloth. and even though she didn't know how to care for a sloth, it was impossible for her to turn away an animal in need. soon after, she received calls about more sloths. soon her house was packed with these adorable animals. it was slothified.

so she started the green fund to help these amazing animals and other creatures of the rainforest and its waterways. this is the only earth we have. our environmentalists and accidental sloth experts can't be its only protectors. we must join them to protect it so that our beloved animals like the sloths can be where they're supposed to be, living in the canopies of our trees. ♪ >> sloths are very cute because they're very slow animals. they like to hang out. they look really relaxed, like a little buddha who's content. they have always a smile on their face. but sloths are facing loss of habitat in the urban area. when sloths are in trouble, all the telephone calls come to us. this is chewy.

>> all animals we rescue we bring them back to my house, which is now like a temporary shelter. it's ridiculous the way he's lying. my life with sloths. my biggest rescue effort was in 2012 when we heard about this plot of land that was going to be cleared. we called this slothageddon. we rescued in total, 200 animals, mostly sloths. there were sloths all over this place. in the kitchen, in the cages. i was slothified. i still have a lot of sloths. whenever you walk into a room, you will see a sloth hanging here or sitting there. what does a sloth do all day? it sleeps. it grooms. it eats.

she loves hibiscus flowers. it sleeps a little bit more. he's so relaxed. it's just amazing. he came in with his nails cut. that's why he has to stay with us. we make sure that our sloths feel really well cared for here. feel really well cared for here. it's like a meditative moment. all animal wes rescue, we check their health and then we move them on to life in the forest. so this is mango. and we are going to release her now. and she's very excited about that. the best part of a rescue is when we release the animal. you are going to the forest. sloths are not pets. wild animals belong in the wild. mango, find yourself a safe spot, huh? you can see s