

Inspiring sisters Lucky, Dicky and Nicky run 3 Sisters Adventure Trekking, which provides women guides and assistants for women trekkers through the Himalayas. They also run the nonprofit, Empowering Women of Nepal. Through it, they train disadvantaged local women (and men) to become guides.

Sara Liza Baumann combines her love for film, media and the arts with sound research, to tackle world issues that matter most. Right now, she’s curious about how people around the world cope with terminal illnesses. What healing methods do people living with AIDS in South Africa, cancer in Budapest or chronic diseases in Vietnam use?

Jos Dirkx runs Girls and Football SA. Her goal: To give a voice to female football players in South Africa and grant them a chance to share their passion, along with the hardships they have encountered as female athletes, with their communities.

She quit her job, packed her bags and moved to Kars, Turkey to live with nomadic beekeepers. Check out her inspiring story here:

Tehrene, who founded the online magazine Love Twenty, talks about the pressure women put on each other to look a certain way in her MTV Voices blog.