The Outlook 15
Meet the shortlisted Outlook Inspirations nominees. The top three, as chosen by our judges, will be revealed at a special event on 4 July 2016.

I'm bringing sanitary pads to Syrian refugees
Amy Peake and her mission to start a sanitary pad factory in a refugee camp

My adopted daughters are gorillas
The Congolese Park Ranger who adopted orphan gorillas

I recover migrants' bodies from the sea
Italian diver Antonio D'Amico recovers the bodies of drowned migrants

I saved 34 lives when a garment factory collapsed
Didar Hossain from Bangladesh repeatedly climbed into the rubble to try and free workers.

I now direct the traffic at the spot where my daughter was killed
Outlook Inspirations Awards 2016 winner Dorris Francis on saving lives on Delhi’s roads

I hold a party every time a baby girl is born
Dr Ganesh Rakh celebrates the birth of female babies to change attitudes in India

Jailed for a murder that never happened
Edward Mpagi spent 20 years in a Ugandan prison after he was framed for murder

They call me 'Uganda's Tarantino'
In a poor suburb in Kampala, Isaac Nabwana is making hit low-budget action films

I have given a voice to civil war survivors
Joseph Kaifala records the stories of those who survived the civil war in Sierra Leone

I fell two miles out of a plane and survived
Juliane Koepcke describes how she fell from a plane into the Amazon jungle

I grant the wishes of the terminally ill
Dutch ambulance driver Kees Veldboer set up an organisation to grant people’s last wishes

I danced again after losing my legs
Liao Zhi had to have her legs amputated following a devastating earthquake in 2008

I survived an acid attack and had a law named after me
Natalia Ponce de Leon was scarred by a stalker. Now she campaigns for other survivors.

They call me Singapore’s Tomb Whisperer
Raymond Goh on his incredible discoveries in the Bukit Brown cemetery

Afghanistan's motorbike-riding crimebuster supergran
Zarifa Qazizadah, one of the very few female village heads in Afghanistan