Somehow, I always end up in these deep conversations with taxi drivers, even when all I want is to quietly watch the world roll by. It’s not that I’m exceptionally charming, no, no sir! Maybe there’s just something in the air.

He speaks of Mangochi with fondness: waking up each morning to brilliant sunrises over Lake Malawi, savouring the quiet community atmosphere, and feeling fortunate to help individuals and local businesses thrive. "Mangochi is beautiful," he said

Poverty lies at the heart of so many health challenges in the rural communities I visit. Take the example of a girl whose family can’t afford sanitary towels.

At the southern tip of the island, at the beach, we arrive early just as a small village-Kizimkazi is about to breathe the first of the day.

There is a village in South Sudan where as you walk through the thin footpaths lined with tall green, healthy elephant grass, you'll see children seated outside their neat huts under mango trees.

There is easily enough food in the world to feed everyone. But unequal market systems, market supply chain slowdowns and shrinking purchasing power continue to choke access, production, and distribution

To see a world in a grain of sand, a heaven in a wildflower and to hold infinity in the palm of your hand.