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A solar pump in northern Kenya is keeping the peace. The woman running it can't inherit the land it sits on.
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
Julia Abbondanza
May 134 min read


She heard about the job on morning television. Eight months later, she was standing on the ice at the bottom of the world.
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
Julia Abbondanza
Apr 96 min read


"Testicular cancer saved my life."
Major Hugo Toovey was 21, fit, and training at Duntroon when he found the lump. He knew it was there for six months before he told anyone. What came next changed the course of his life and eventually, his purpose.
Julia Abbondanza
Mar 224 min read


'If you don't tell your story, someone will.' Meet the artist reclaiming African culture on its own terms.
Anyanwu's debut exhibition, Objects Of Power, asks what African culture looks like when no one else is holding the pen. Objects Of Power debuted in Rome earlier this year. Somto Ajuluchukwu made an intentional decision by not going by his given name. For his art, he goes by Anyanwu, a name drawn from Igbo cosmology. "I feel like my eyes are my greatest gift. Anyanwu translates to mean Eye(s) of the Sun. It's the Alusi (god) that observes the people and provides them with ligh
Julia Abbondanza
Mar 35 min read
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