After training and working as a Nurse in a busy Emergency department in South Africa, I went to Madagascar in 1992 as medic for a remote expedition. Witnessing and treating the confronting suffering created through water scarcity was what began a 3 decade journey to work on solutions and do something about it. Now in 2025, the same villages are drowning in incoming plastic, every day. By adding the urgent and complicated global challenge of plastics to the list of solutions we we are fighting for, I believe I have found a way to make a scalable difference and drive meaningful change. I am gra…