INDIA • Sheroes Hangout, with its tasteful decor and lively graffiti, is tucked away between some nondescript eateries, across from a five-star luxury hotel.

BOGOTA - They look like any other children - caught in the spell of toys, games and dappled sunlight.

SAN FRANCISCO - Go up this bus, and grab a ... shower stall. 

SOUTH KOREA • Ms Jihey Lee was a successful marketer at an IT company when she decided to give it all up in 2008 and set up a social enterprise helping marginalised women.

ALGERIA • Though Ms Messad Djoudi's father is a beekeeper, she never took an interest in what he did.

AFGHANISTAN • After nearly three decades in which it stayed shut because of the Taleban's ban on music, the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (Anim) re-opened in 2010, keen to rekindle a musical teaching tradition.

SOUTH KOREA • Ms Jihey Lee was a successful marketer at an IT company when she decided to give it all up in 2008 and set up a social enterprise helping marginalised women.

ALGERIA • Though Ms Messad Djoudi's father is a beekeeper, she never took an interest in what he did.

AFGHANISTAN • After nearly three decades in which it stayed shut because of the Taleban's ban on music, the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (Anim) re-opened in 2010, keen to rekindle a musical teaching tradition.

SOUTH KOREA • Ms Jihey Lee was a successful marketer at an IT company when she decided to give it all up in 2008 and set up a social enterprise helping marginalised women.

ALGERIA • Though Ms Messad Djoudi's father is a beekeeper, she never took an interest in what he did.

AFGHANISTAN • After nearly three decades in which it stayed shut because of the Taleban's ban on music, the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (Anim) re-opened in 2010, keen to rekindle a musical teaching tradition.

SOUTH KOREA • Ms Jihey Lee was a successful marketer at an IT company when she decided to give it all up in 2008 and set up a social enterprise helping marginalised women.

ALGERIA • Though Ms Messad Djoudi's father is a beekeeper, she never took an interest in what he did.

AFGHANISTAN • After nearly three decades in which it stayed shut because of the Taleban's ban on music, the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (Anim) re-opened in 2010, keen to rekindle a musical teaching tradition.

SOUTH KOREA • Ms Jihey Lee was a successful marketer at an IT company when she decided to give it all up in 2008 and set up a social enterprise helping marginalised women.

ALGERIA • Though Ms Messad Djoudi's father is a beekeeper, she never took an interest in what he did.

AFGHANISTAN • After nearly three decades in which it stayed shut because of the Taleban's ban on music, the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (Anim) re-opened in 2010, keen to rekindle a musical teaching tradition.

SOUTH KOREA • Ms Jihey Lee was a successful marketer at an IT company when she decided to give it all up in 2008 and set up a social enterprise helping marginalised women.

ALGERIA • Though Ms Messad Djoudi's father is a beekeeper, she never took an interest in what he did.

AFGHANISTAN • After nearly three decades in which it stayed shut because of the Taleban's ban on music, the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (Anim) re-opened in 2010, keen to rekindle a musical teaching tradition.