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Ende, Indonesia has always been a place of personal significance for me. Having been raised by a kakak from Ende, I have subconsciously accorded Ende with people of big hearts and warm spirits. Naturally, this led me to sponsor a child from Ende in June 2020. When the opportunity to travel to Ende presented itself, it was a no-brainer for me.

Leon, a 12-year-old girl living in Kapeni, southern Malawi, faces immense challenges due to droughts, floods and global economic pressures, which have taken a heavy toll on her family's income and access to food. Such natural disasters, and the ensuing economic pressures, pose a particular threat to women and girls, who are more likely to miss school to take care of domestic responsibilities, suffer from domestic violence, experience child marriage and sexual assault, and suffer from intimate partner violence.