In a country where violence is often shrouded in silence, Tahina Booth is trying to break the cycle with something as simple as passing a ball.
The former athlete runs programmes aimed at reducing harm to women in some of Papua New Guinea’s most dangerous regions. Her story starts with pain.
“I was raped at age seven,” she says. “That experience shaped the questions that have driven my life: why is violence normal? And what would it take to build something different – especially for girls growing up in places like mine?”
