Each month, IJNet features an international journalist who exemplifies the profession and has used the site to further his or her career. This month's journalist is P. Wanja Njuguna, a Kenyan lecturer and editor working in Botswana.

The moment Rachna, 19, steps behind the microphone she is a changed person. Now a role model for girls in her village, she remembers a time when she was not even allowed to leave the house without a male escort. Today, of course, Rachna's voice is heard in every home in the remote corners of Lalitpur, a district in the impoverished, drought-affected Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh (UP), India's largest state.

Winners of the 2010 International Women's Media Foundation Courage in Journalism Awards have one thing in common: professional tenacity in the face of incredible odds. The winners include a Tanzanian reporter risking her life to expose the ritual killings of people with albinism, a Colombian reporter investigating a political murder of a journalist and a Tibetan poet and blogger who continues her work while in exile.