Mariel Margaret Garciaparra (born on March 17, 1972, in Selma, Alabama), best known as Mia Hamm, is a retired American soccer player. Hamm played many years as a forward for the United States women's national soccer team and was a founding member of the Washington Freedom.

Hamm has scored more international goals in her career than any other player, male or female, in the history of soccer (158). She is the second most capped female player in history.

Heather Clare Knight is an international cricketer. She was born on 26 December 1990 in Rochdale and is a right-handed batsman and occasional right arm medium pace bowler.

A prolific batsman at county level for her native Devon, she has played for the Diamonds, the Rubies, England Academy Women and the England Women's team. She topped the county run scoring aggregates in both 2008 (390 runs) and 2009 (622).

Fearless ocean rower Roz Savage gave up her life as a management consultant to row across the Atlantic in 2005.

Of the estimated 110 million children in the world who do not attend primary school, more than 60 million are girls. The 60 million girls Foundation knows that programs directed towards girls’ education are the most effective community investment in the developing world.  

60 million girls Foundation is a group of committed women working to support education projects that target the most vulnerable and marginalized girls in countries with the greatest gender inequality.

Susan notes: find out more about Al Qasimi at these links.