Robin Barnes is a singer/songwriter from New Orleans, whose voice has carried jazz and funk across stages from the French Quarter to London's Royal Opera House. She spent fifteen years singing other people's songs before she trusted her own voice enough to record one. Then a friend behind a camera noticed something in her body that she hadn't. It was the New Orleans accent that caught her first, not the words. "Rum-in baby," the photographer said, because nobody in that city

Wisye Sahambangung spent five years restoring mangroves on the North Sulawesi coast, most of it on instinct. Then the village government started calling. Wisye Sahambangung has a simple explanation for why young people in her village rarely join the mangrove planting. "To plant mangroves, you have to go down into the mud," she says. "They don't want to get dirty." She says it without judgment and very matter of fact. Wisye comes from Sarawet Village in North Likupang, North S

Nobody designed a water kiosk to end conflict, but in the north of Kenya, that's exactly what happened, and the women running them are the reason why. Photo supplied by CARE Kenya. Consent obtained and release signed for all individuals pictured Getrude Misango spent years moving women from the margins of Kenya's economy into its centre, now the funding that makes it possible is disappearing. Misango is sitting in a conference room in at the Women Deliver Conference in Naarm

Sara Pearce spent fifteen years learning how buildings live and die before a question on morning TV sent her south. Now she runs engineering at Australia's Antarctic stations, where one cracked pipe can cost a year's worth of water and a leaking toilet is never just that. Sara in front of the Mawson bollard, Antarctica. The question arrived on a Tuesday morning while Sara Pearce was getting ready for work. She was standing in her kitchen, half-dressed, half-listening to the t