Bernadette Sami has been bedridden for 15 years through disability and illness, but she has not allowed that to stop her from fulfilling her dreams. Now she is using her writing skills to help SAT-7’s Youth for an Enabling Society (YES) project to inspire a generation of change-makers across the Arab world.

“Every trip I heard this comment from passengers: ‘Had I known a woman was flying the plane I would never have come on board.’” Egyptian-born Heba Darwish describes her journey of overcoming the barriers in a male-dominated society and profession to achieve her dream of becoming an airline captain.