Namra Khalid and Henk Ovink struck up a surprising yet endearing friendship during Cycle 01 of The World Around´s mentorship initiative, the Young Climate Prize. 

Khalid lives in Karachi, Pakistan, where her project involves mapping the city’s ever-changing coastline to understand severe flood vulnerability. She was mentored by Ovink, the executive director for the Global Commission on the Economics of Water, during YCP Cycle 01.

Khalid was awarded the Young Climate Visionary prize at the end of the program (Henk always new she would win, he reveals), and in this video, shares how her work has become highly in-demand since winning the prize She explains how Ovink was instrumental in expanding her network, and has become a “mentor for life,” while Ovink also divulges that he envisions the two of them working on projects together in both the near and far future.