My story of hope are companies, that are completely devoted to the common good. There's one called Crepes and waffles which is a restaurant chain in Colombia with over 6000 employees. Although it's a multinational, Its purpose is the inclusion of single mothers in society, and in the labour markets. What's so marvellous about crepes and waffles, is that they guarantee wonderful quality of food for everybody because it's very affordable for the many social classes. They source quality foods from single mother suppliers of vegetables and fruits, and they pay them from 40 to 60% above the market value If they retain clean watercourses in the plots. They regenerate the quality of soil so when you go to these restaurants you participate in a solution which is a global need, which is bringing back the bio-diversity and cleaning up the waters.

My story of hopefulness is the story of every refugee especially Syrian refugees. Being a refugee is very hard and Syrian refugees have suffered the most horrible situations losing everything, their home, their life, their loved ones. And yet despite all of this, they kept trying to go and find a better place, across the seas, across the borders to get a better life for their children. And they all faced horrible things and it felt as if the whole world was against them, but they didn't give up. They were the hope seekers. I believe that what refugees have done is amazing because they were able to start their lives from square one, they were able to learn new languages, to work and mix with new communities. We now see Syrian food in countries like Germany, UK, America and Canada. We now see Syrian culture all around the world, being celebrated. I have seen refugees who now have great jobs, who have been great in sport, in science and in the medical field. All of these people have been through so so much but they didn't give up. All refugees are trying to tell the world about how beautiful Syria is with a great heritage and a great history. It is one of the most beautiful places in the whole entire world.

In 2015 I was covering the refugee crisis in Europe as a photo journalist and I started to receive a lot of messages from people in different parts of the world asking how we can help. A foundation was established that is run by passionate talented people from different parts of the world who believe in making a difference. It's a home to ease the lives of thousands of people simply through passion, through photography, through visuals, through paintings through art. Anybody can follow their hearts and use their passion in a good way.

My story of hopefulness is an organisation called Lost stock. They were formed at the beginning of the pandemic, because when the pandemic was growing, 2 billion dollars worth of clothes were cancelled across the world. These clothes had been made already in countries like Bangladesh, China and India but the fashion labels just cancelled those order which meant that the people, mainly women who had made those clothes lost their jobs with received no pay for the work that they had done. Lost stock was created to try and help that situation, enable workers to be paid and prevent clothes from going into landfill. What they did was create boxes of up to three garments, made a website where you could tell this website whether you were into neutral colours or dark colours or bright colours. You put in your size, and also whether you like to wear baggy clothes or tight clothes and for 35 pounds for a box you got three tops in the post. Lost Stock worked with a foundation called the Sadija Foundation based in Dhaka in Bangladesh who have supported nearly 114,000 people. Lost Stock has recently been rebranded to Unfolded.

As the former vicar at St Andrews in Abu Dhabi my hopeful story is the Islamic Scholar, Shaykh Abdullah bin Bayah who is bringing together people from all over the world to agree that our religions and law systems should make space for equality for all. At 90 years old he is still energetic and bringing people together on that mission to try and push back against the forces of distraction and hatred.

Neil Pinder is my story of hope. A teacher who founded the organisation Homegrown Plus as a way of improving diversity in architecture. There's lots of people doing great work around the environment but the built environment has never been particularly inclusive. It's been very white, male and middle class. It's also a very expensive profession to train for so It's not been as inclusive as it should have been but things are really starting to change. I'm really impressed and moved by the work that Neil Pender is doing for Homegrown Plus, a charity that he has set up as a way of getting young people involved in architecture.

My story of hopefulness is mediator Gabrielle Rifkind who specialises in conflict resolution with Oxford Process. She is a psychotherapist by training, but she has spent the last 25 years working on conflict resolution. Her idea is that, to make peace you really need to bring the differences of the people into a room and you need to have a way of resolving those differences with empathy allowing space for people to grieve and to express anger. Her work around the world is so inspiring to me.

I had the privilege of being an ambassador for The Homeless Football World Cup which is my story of hopefuless. They bring over 40 teams together from around the world and create a tournament that embraces talent and says everybody can succeed with a little bit of help. I spoke to people from countries like Indonesia, Brazil and Colombia and all these people have got these mad stories. With teamwork, people's lives can change. I saw how football can make somebody so happy but not only that I saw how amazing it is to see people who have been in the same situation, connect with other people from around the world and share their stories. I'm so proud to have been a part of it.