Imagine if the place you grew up in no longer existed? If the home where your first memories were made slipped under the sea.

That is exactly what happened to Gladys Habu, a pharmacist turned activist from the Pacific nation of the Solomon Islands, a country quickly disappearing under rising sea levels.

Gladys and her family have lived through effects of climate change. She wants us to open our eyes to what we are all contributing to.

Gladys remembers the birds, trees, turtle nests and sandy beaches of her grandparents’ island. Now that island no longer exists. It has been completely submerged. And it isn’t just her island – four more in the region have since been lost.