1. Meet FARAHNAZ MOHAMMED ...Advocate
Farah started in high school with two small groups:
AIDS Awareness (to increase knowledge about the
disease and combat stigma) and Amnesty
International.
She took over as student head of Amnesty in her final
year believing that a little commitment can make a
big difference.
During her university career, she Now employed at a small NGO in China,Farah also
volunteered at a clinic and interned volunteers for DeltaWomen and a Tropical Diseases
at a newspaper in her resident unit.
country, Jamaica. This allowed her
to see firsthand the debilitating Taking active interest in global issues, Farah believes
effects of poverty, and the that acting within her power to fight for her cause, no
limitations of those working to matter how small it may be.
change it.
And as she moves towards her goal of being a doctor, Farah looks forward to a very positive and
inspiring future.

2. Meet ASHFAK YASAL,
Advocacy Officer, Activist
Inspired by Martin Luther King’s words, “Everybody can be
great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a
college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and
verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul
generated by love,” Ashfak realized that the more you interact
with the distressed populace, the more you realize the worth of
life.
He joined South Asia Forum as advocacy officer which focuses on core issues
like democratic governance, and reformation of state owned institutions for
deliverance in Pakistan.
During their base line survey The 2010 devastating flood in Pakistan opened his eyes to the
in Northern Areas of Pakistan reality that women were deprived of education, health and
( which fall under tribal economic incentives. Seeing Pakistan’s socio- Economic
administration control) they infrastructure in tatters with the minority living very miserable
came across women lives, Ashfak was resolute in his decision to work for the
deprived of their rights to neglected populace and plans to form a force of women whose
cast their vote. voices have been silenced.
In Ashfak’s words: “The force will aim to empower women specially from minority, socially
politically and economic.”

3. Meet Ana Isabel Martínez Molina,
Activist
Ana Isabel has been an activist since the day
she was born.
An activist…not because she suffers for
others but because she believes only we
ourselves can eradicate inequality in this
world and appreciate the world’s
magnificence.
An activist…because history is full of utopias
that became reality, but none of them can
be achieved in one day nor without fighting.
Inspired by beautiful words from a wise woman, “With a pen you can do anything,” Ana Isabel
intends to travel the world with a pen and paper. To see, listen, and feel. To know, love, and live,
and share it all for others to experience and feel the same through the might of her pen…and to
make a difference.

4. Meet NATALIA ALEKSEJEVA,
Advocate for children and women’s rights
For Natalia, activism all began while she was
working as an intern at the Police Prefecture
Department for Child Protection.
Passionate about children’s rights and child sexual
abuse prevention, she started joining several
NGOs, including the local UNICEF group. She then
became the national coordinator of the legal
research group, which investigates the protection
of children against sexual violence in cooperation
with the Council of Europe.
Believing that a child’s welfare depends greatly on his mother’s welfare, she stresses that when
women are empowered, this benefits and creates a ripple effect on future generations.
In her inspiring words, “Women have all the power, more power than they themselves can
imagine. I believe that we ourselves should be the change we want to see in the world and that
anyone can make a difference.”

5. Meet NGOAKO JAY MOROKOLO,
the Intellect Activist
An Intellect - Ngoako considers himself among the
intelligentsia who use their creativity, knowledge
and life skills to succeed, and to change other
people’s lives and the environment for the better.
To Ngoako, these are South Africa’s (SA) new
citizens.
His experiences living as a homosexual in His political exposure to African National Congress
Johannesburg hardened him. And for a (ANC) and early activism in the business sectors,
long time he forgot that life isn’t just Youth Empowerment Services (YES) and Consumer
about himself and his own sexuality, but Affairs have molded him into the person that he is
also of the world and those who live in it. today.
He started an interactive online book club and plans to help young girls read English in the
school where he teaches.
Passionate about books and its readers, writing for Deltawomen has encouraged him to write
more to inspire and educate women.

6. Meet SINMISOLA OGUNYINKA,
Wife, mother, and Advocate for children’s rights
A woman of many accomplishments,
Sinmisola works as management support
for ICAP Nigeria in the HR & Admin unit. She
has also written and co-written 16 books.
She had a talk show TV program in Calabar
called Issues of Life where contemporary
Bible issues are trashed out in a no-holds-
barred show.
With a deep passion for children on the
streets of Nigeria, she dreams of the
eradication of street hawking of children in
Nigeria during her lifetime.
She tries to motivate and solicit help for children on the streets through her charity called Dorcie
and is also involved in outreach programs: Umbrella project, bread and milk project, hospital
and prison outreach, and back-to-school projects
What’s in the future for Sinmisola? She will soon be part of Nollywood with her original works
in moving pictures.

7. Meet SREEJESH Sreejesh had no thought of being a part of social
Activist and Volunteer service till his high school days. But things changed
when he joined a new school undertaken by the
Government of Kerala, where he was selected to the
National Service Scheme(NSS).
His first opportunity as Volunteer started with Centre
for African Affairs and Global Peace, an organization
dealing with HIV infected population of Africa.
Working with DeltaWomen further provided him with
another opportunity to get involved in major global
concerns on women empowerment and other gender
and global issues,
Sreejesh sees himself as not just getting more active
as an Online Volunteer, but he foresees himself as
To Sreejesh, “An activist is not made by getting away from the Computer Screen or Internet
education but by his tireless and selfless and out on field missions for Non-Profit Organizations
work towards the development of the to help address environmental or social issues. He
society, people and environment he is hopes to one day be a part of the field missions for
living in.” the United Nations or similar civic organizations.

8. Kirthi was sure that when she went to Law School, she was
Meet KIRTHI JAYAKUMAR, not going to be a practitioner at a Court of Law.
Lawyer, Activist, Feminist
She wanted to be an activist, a voice, for people who
needed to be heard; a conduit for a person's deliverance
to justice; one of the working wheels of society, that would
help people..
Technology has taken her places - from war stricken
Afghanistan, to DR Congo, the Middle East, Nigeria,
Pakistan, Palestine, South East Asia...to places where
women bear the brunt of suffering from domestic or sexual
violence, honour killings, or some other form of gender
discrimination and violence simply because they are
females.
She realized that in the same world where women had the
freedom to be equal with men, the women too had to
struggle for recognition and equality be it in education,
work or marriage.
She learned that there is something intricately linking the backbone of society and women, that
when one of those woven threads is unravelled, society is crippled. Yes, she is a drop in the
ocean, but can... and has made a difference by being a voice for people who needed one.