My 70 year old adopted grandmother who is just forming a helping hand organisation for people who are in her age group that have experienced loss, and that are trying to start over and find their sense of purpose in life.

My hopeful story is a creative community and global not-for-profit organisation who believe that creative thinking and innovation can make positive change. Their mission is to embed purpose-driven creative thinking into every institution, brand and organisation across the world.

Scott Powell who is the owner of a company called Peak Experiences. Scott created a place for dirtbags to come and stay and live and I'll be forever indebted to him because he provided the first foundation for me to heal and get stronger.

AR Projects provide warm meals and essential supplies to hundreds of people every week through their three soup kitchens, which act as portable hubs. These hubs are supporting those in need in various ways, including food, clothing, hygiene, mental health, and more.

Enviromentalist Wangari Maathai who is founder of the Greenbelt movement, the first African women to win the Nobel prize. So inspiring especially as Wangari is from my tribe in Kenya.

I think that hope is in each one of us. We have survived as humanity through care and compassion and every single one of us has the capacity for empathy and compassion. Our social nature has given us an incredible survival advantage and we can see the evidence of compassion in our physiology, our biochemistry, our genomics and everywhere else that you look. This is so hopeful.

The indigenous communities of Sierra Nevada, are the guardians of the health of the planet. Their rituals are rooted in the understanding that the world is a single organism so whatever happens in one place is affecting the rest of the organism.

My story is about a young women who grew up in an isolated village with no running water or power in Sierra Leone. She went on one of our programmes and started engaging her village in conversations around early age marriage which was a big issue. Before long 70 or 80 people attended and then other local villages opened up with further conversations around the issue. We have been walking alongside her in her ambition to go to University and eventually become a Lawyer.