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Khassan leads teams supporting hospitals near the front lines in eastern Ukraine.
Mercedes Alarcón, Doctor, Mexico
Mercedes works at the Comprehensive Care Centre (the CAI in Spanish) in Mexico City to provide care for survivors of extreme violence and torture.
Naomie Lubin, Midwife, Haiti
Naomie works with women at the Isaïe Jeanty maternity in a dangerous neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince.
We are the radically hopeful
For many of us, the world feels heavier than it has in a long time. Crisis after crisis hits the news cycle. Misinformation runs rampant. Polarization threatens to tear us apart. Hopelessness and despair creep closer. But in this moment, hope is not soft or naïve. When the world feels this heavy, hope is a choice: a deliberate, defiant one. Hope is radical.
Hope is a surgeon holding their hand steady as bombs fall outside the hospital walls. It’s a mobile team wading through floodwaters to reach people cut off from care. It’s a nurse caring for patients on hallway floors in a health centre packed to the brim.
Hope refuses the lie that nothing we do matters. It refuses apathy. It refuses silence. It insists on change, even in the face of impossible circumstances.
Hope isn’t the absence of fear or doubt – it’s the relentless grit and determination to keep going anyway.
We are the radically hopeful. We stay. We act. We refuse to look away.
And we’re asking you to do the same.
IS YOUR HOPE RADICAL?
Yes, I refuse to look away. I refuse to normalize indifference.
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“As a double doctor in training, I don’t believe that hope is the absence of fear or doubt. It is the relentless grit and determination to keep going anyways.”
“Hope is action. It’s donating when you can, volunteering when you can, speaking kindly when anger feels easy, believing humanity is still worth fighting for.”
