She has always been fighting injustices against women  in this hinduist culture. They are often beaten and submitted. When they have their periods for example, women of the country side have to sleep in the stable because they are considered as impure; Abortion is illegal to the point  that some women are arrested and put in jail for having done it, and divorce is the worst shame. Citizenship has been granted to women only last year.

Bhawani helps women who have  projects to set up a company, financially but also as an adviser or trainer. She also fights against many prostitute traffics taking place with India. Her needs, feed the support fund and create a micro-credit bank specially for the women.
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To be a Fashion designer in a country where priorities are survival needs is not easy. Joe Joe would like to believe that life can be light, despite difficulties in her country. The standart of living is one of the lowest in  the world and the opening of the country towards overseas is fought by the military dictatorship. The clothes and fashion accessories created by Joe Joe and her sister in the common room that they share with their mum are mainly sold to expatriate people working in Rangoon. The standart of living of Burmese people prevent them from access to this quality of products. Nevertheless, Joe Joe would like to give  her country a new spirit about fashion, authorize a bigger freedom to women who  dare not leave the traditional clothes. Her dream : do a internship in France, in Paris, capital city of fashion. A fashion without limit of expression.
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Originated from the township of Katutura in the suburbs of Windhoek , Namibia, she who everybody calls Pewa is a very special entrepreneur . First of all hairdresser, she inaugurates this year her fourth hair salon, employs 40 women of the township and proposes training to promote entrepreneurship. If at the beginning, her considerations were essentially financial, she tries now to change the life of her community, thanks to her activity. “I don’t want to leave the trace of a rich person , the important thing is to feel that my action helps Namibia to grow up”. Thanks to her fund for education, Pewa provides education to children in order to offer them the same chances that those she gives to herself.

The Cosmetic brand Pewa, created on its initiative, is the first local brand. Her products, specific to the skin of black people, are distributed in the whole country whereas before only international brands could be marketed. A proof that the quality of her work is acknowledged: She has been appointed to the economic consulting team of the president. Pewa hopes now to extend her social actions and export her products.
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Marcela, through her animated characters, talks about life, death, spirituality, recreates her interior world. After studies of journalism, a first job as a scenarist for a Chilean TV soap, Marcela decides to focus on animation movies. She expresses in her movies thoughts on life and does not yield to the diktat of production houses that wanted to deal with more popular subjects, thinking that these kind of movies only exist to entertain.

In the Anatomist, her next big project, she tells the story of a man willing to mommify his wives to keep them close to him. One of them comes back to life in her mommified body and learns to evade intellectually. This first long movie, poetic and deep, needs the mobilization of a big team to realize the animation. Until now, Marcela was concentrated on writing and drawing it. Today, she needs to find investors for this huge project.
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From Malaysia where she grew up, in Singapore where she worked in a communication agency, to Myanmar where she has been living  for four years as a Buddhist monk, Tan Sei Wei has had already100 lives. A very spiritual woman, she shares her Zen vision of the world through paintings that she exhibits in her new country of adoption, the country of the 300 000 monks. She tells also her experience through a comic that she wishes to publish.
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Passionate by music and writing, Christi uses her talent to fight against plagues that kill Namibia. She studies development through theater and goes to communities to act in some plays and lead writing workshops on violence, illetrism, aids or alcoholism. For her, oral or writing expression is the best way to pass on messages, and brake taboos.
She leads an action towards jailed women through writing workshops. She would like to publish a book with their creations talking about fundamentals values. Deprived of freedom, we realize how precious it is, how important it is  not to delay things to a later day.
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Prudence is author, type-setter and singer of King Georges 6, in Zimbabwe. Suffering from Arthrogryphosis, she has been amputed of her two legs and has only one partially usable arm Despite this handicap, after several minutes of conversation, we discover that she is a dynamic woman passionate by the music which is the most important thing for her. Her family left her in the institute when she was 5, remembering her only when she was in Switzerland (asking her to bring back some presents), she has nevertheless the hope to get closer to them in buying a house.

To pay for it, her biggest dream is to go overseas to give concerts and study musical theory. The King Georges Six won the first Award at international festival of music in Maputo: a three weeks road show in Sweden. Beyond her success, Prudence through this opportunity wishes to raise taboos: “we really wants to point out talent instead of handicap, in order to change the glance of people”.
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After studying “maternal psychology”, she learnt to assist the mothers in their delivering process and for the first years of education, but she has another personal project which really deserves to succeed. Lizet wish to open a centre proposing the women to rent or to benefit for free machine to suck the breast milk, in order to feed the children longer. The malnutrition due to social distress is a strong cause of mortality, and the mothers working, they are compelled to stop giving their breast milk too early. But no machine like that is available in the country, and their high cost (1500 euros per piece) does not allow her to provide them. She has also another project to open a free maternity offering another option to the crowded collective rooms of the public hospitals of Belize City.   
This young woman, who cannot have children, dedicates her life  to allow  others the privilege to give birth in better conditions.
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Born in Austria, Annett is a dancer and choreograph sharing her passion with the young people in difficult situation in the suburbs of Soweto,  Johannesburg.

Her aim is to give new perspectives to all the young people between 5 and 15 years old. Many of them never leave the ghetto and stop studying because of a lack of money. To discover a new activity and for some a real talent, motivate them and give them a new push. All these young people have a innate sense of rhythm, but they discover at the association that dance is also an art and a true discipline. The inaction is their worst enemy, and the fact to discover  a passion reinitiate their taste for life.. Annett looks now to set up exchanges between South Africa and Austria through dance courses.
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Marawa lives in a magical world, surrounded by hula hoop, giant trampolines in the garden and colourful costumes. After studying two years of computer science, she starts a new life at the circus school. Like a complete artist, she likes to create her proper shows. Around Melbourne, she already performed in wonderful places where the music, dance and poetry have a big part. Because the words will never be as good as images, we invite you to visit her website on www.myspace.com/marawa, it is just magical.
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Juanita is Bolivian Judo champion. She fights regularly in the competitions of South America, but also took part once to the world-wide championship of Madrid in 2004. She even succeeded to get to the quarter finals sometime, but has ftill now never won a medal. She confesses us that the level of Bolivia is very low compared to other countries in Judo. The government has no budget attributed to high level sport, and  she is never paid. Only her transports fees are paid by the Bolivian federation of Judo. Her biggest dream is to go to train in Japan during one year in order to be good enough to represent decently her country and prove to her government that it should help the athletes of their country to get results.

She wishes one day to open her own dojo and give the incentive to others young people to start judo. She still have to find funds because the tatamis here costs a big amount of money.
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Rebecca launched an « ethical » tourist agency in Namibia while tourism in the country is handled mainly by international tours operators. 95% of travel agencies and operators are managed by white people, often foreigners, so Rebecca decided to present her culture in her proper way, from the inside, the heart of the country. She has even been granted by Namibian Government for this action. Wanderzone Tours exists since the beginning of 2006, and proposes townships tours, city tours of Windhoek often forsaken by tourists, and excursions to some national parks.

Her objective is to share with as many people  as possible the particularities of Namibian culture. Through these cultural tours, she invites tourists to discuss with people from the townships in order to share their history, difficulties, and their everyday life. She helps communities in paying them some fees.
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This author, compositor and interpret, more known as Flopa is an independent and free artist, who refuses to be under contract with a broadcast house that may ask her to put of her glasses to be more “bankable”. She already produced two discs and will soon finish the second one. But what she likes the most is being on stage. She performs at least several times a month around Buenos Aires, naturally, with her words, notes, and emotions. Her name starts to be known and the sales of the discs are getting better and better. Flopa lives for the music, far from the usual conventions of this environment. Despite her “nice girl” appearance, she does not compromise with her independence and values. You can discover her music on www.flopa.com.ar
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Pumla is a young fashion designer based in Johannesburg. She created her own brand called Fudunzu in 2003. This brand is a mix of modern sobriety with multicolor traditional textile from Vantu, tribes of the Mpalanga region (in the North East of South Africa). It is simple design, easy to wear and original. Pumla works with an associate who concentrates  on the commercial aspect whereas she is more involved in the design and the identity of the brand. The special mix between sober and traditional details makes already plenty of adepts in South Africa and maybe soon in Paris.
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Anita Khemka is a  reporter  who fights against taboos of Indian society just armed with her camera. Her favorite subject: Hijras, these men who decided to become women. They are Indian Eunuques, well known in Hinduism culture, they bless babies and are considered as healers of infertility. These dancers and singers formerly adored, are now hatred and rejected and work often as prostitutes. For  8 years now, Anita has spent a lot of time with them and gained their confidence. Thousands of pictures were taken from this friendship.

Recently, Thomas Wartmann realized « Between the lines » a documentary movie on Hijras, with Anita playing her proper character.  She has a sight, an objective which open us to  the injustices and realities of the world.
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