Have you ever thought why the world map is upside down in My MARS mantra podcast logo? Meet Richard Turner, who gave me this idea to look at things from a fresh perspective. As we are celebrating the Earth Day earlier this week, let’s find out from Richard, what Sustainable Fundraising mean? How can we bring both the profit and not-for profit sectors together to reach a common goal for saving our planet?

Richard has over 30 years of fundraising experience for many UK-based charities, like Solar Aid, Action Aid, Farm Africa and Oxfam. Richard also trains on fundraising for charities around the world to turn supporters into advocates, by offering a great experience, by learning from failure and by telling a great story.

Farah Mihlar grew up in Sri Lanka, witnessing the civil war. She then became a journalist, and now a human rights activist working at international policy level, while teaching at Oxford Brookes University. Farah is passionate on advocating minority rights and women's rights, working on conflict prevention, peace building and transitional justice. Farah holds a PhD, where she did an ethnographic field research on political Islam and Islamic religious movements in Sri Lanka. Farah also continues to challenge the concept of decolonisation, and its impact on us in our day to day lives in academia as well as in practice.

Kate Bowen-Evans shares her story of growing up between two cultures in Buruni and England. This helped her to develop empathy and inner resilience to thrive and work in some of the most difficult places like Afghanistan, Palatine, Israel and many other conflict and disaster prone countries. Kate has now moved on from working in disasters and conflict zones to teaching on Humanitarian Practice. Kate’s own daughter's and her brother’s experience of living with disability motivated her to research on Disability Theology and to pursue a PhD in Biblical studies and marginalisation; and working on building leadership in various integrated projects in the Africa region.