During Pakistan’s 2022 floods, water seemed to erase the distinction between abundance and scarcity. Rivers overflowed, settlements disappeared beneath muddy currents, and millions were displaced. Yet in the camps and inundated villages, families still lacked the one thing surrounding them: water they could safely drink. For Dr Hifza Rasheed, the contradiction was unbearable. She had […]

At four each morning in Sierra Leone, before daylight and long before school, Bridget Bannerman was awake. By five, she and her siblings were dressed, books open. Their father, a single parent and educationist who worked through the country’s passage from colonial rule into independence, believed education could enlarge life. He supervised his children’s progress […]

Born in a remote Himalayan farming community in the District of Almora in Uttarakhand, Dr. Darshana Joshi learned early that ambition can falter simply because it has no one to echo it back. It needs opportunity, encouragement, and people who believe in your potential before you can fully believe in it yourself. A scholarship from […]