Telling my story will remain the most powerful tool I possess on earth, my story starts in the year 2020. In March 2020, I received a call of a woman crying on the other side of the call...
Leading Change
“Stories are tools of transformation”
VIDEO: Kristen Ali Eglinton, PhD, is the Executive Director and Co-founder of Footage, a nonprofit organization “raising voices to elevate lives through creative research, media arts, and...
“My job is to tell the stories of the cause”
VIDEO: Nisha Varghese, a humanitarian in South Africa, uses stories to help support many organizations and causes. In this video, recorded in 2020, Nisha mentions one of these...
My Journey From “A ‘SCRATCH’ to A...
Hello, It’s Suchismita Ghoshal addressing her life’s story to motivate the distressed people out there who think they will always be stagnant on the point of failure. Hailing...
How Female Genital Mutilation defined my very life.
Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it contains descriptions of female genital mutilation. When I turned 11, my grandmother mentioned that I would be getting my...
For Every Door That Closes, Another Opens
I’ve always struggled with my gender identity. Growing up, I started playing baseball because of my older brother. I was always the only girl on my team, but it never bothered me...
Pursue your inner voice to be in a position “to...
“My name is Bhagyashree Saini and more than anything, my primary identity is that “I am a child marriage survivor”. I fought for 11 years to come out of this social evil and...
It doesn’t matter where you come from, just...
My name is Christine Nakayiza from Uganda, i come from a polygamous family of five wives and many children. My father died when i was only 5yrs (am one of the last borns), so i was left...
I Will Be the One
The main point of my story is the changes that occur within a person… Our parents raise us in a certain way, but we have the power to change and be different. In Chile, we have...
It’s never too late to be who you want to be
I didn’t pursue secondary education after high school because I had always been told that it wasn’t my role as a woman. The plan was always that I would be the primary caregiver for my...