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Roberto Killmeate, a former priest, promotes the dignity of rural life by providing tools for self-empowerment: a way to earn a livelihood while strengthening social ties.

Umme Kulsum Ranjana is the President of Protibondhi Narider Jatio Parishad (National Council of Disabled Women-NCDW), a network of organizations working with the women with disabilities in Bangladesh. She has mobilized 10,000 women with disabilities in 23 out of 64 districts in Bangladesh, using NCDW as a platform to end discrimination and injustice against women with disabilities.

Harman Kaur Sharda is the Project Director of Rescue & Revival Mission in India, which provides aid to the widows and families of Punjabi farmers who have committed suicide.

Mitslal Haile-Selassie was married at the age of seven and had her first child at age twelve. At that point, she decided that she did not want anyone else to have similar experiences to her own. As a result, she started Eve’s Vision, a non-profit design to aid and empower women in her homeland Ethiopia.

Magda’s is a miraculous story. She was sexually-abused as a child. This suffering manifested itself as anger in her adult life, against her own children. The local government forced her to be separated from her children and husband. And for two years, as she lived separately, a professional psychologist helped her to get back together with her family. As she shared this with the audience at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, it struck a chord with many.