Paul Rose, BBC presenter and expedition leader is an Ashden Award ‘Advocate’ who helps raise awareness of the work of our winners. He has just returned from a trip to Bangladesh visiting sustainable development projects and witnessing at first hand the country’s vulnerability at the frontline of climate change.

During the visit he spent time with Rezwan who runs Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha, a project which won an Ashden Award in 2007. The project bring solar energy to remote waterside communities with a fleet of boats, working in a region that is flooded in the monsoon season. The boats’ roofs are covered in solar panels that charge batteries for the solar systems they carry to local communities. They provide education for the local young people, particularly girls, and training on agriculture, health advice, mobile phone and internet access. In the evening films are projected onto a sail to educate villagers.

Some boats also act as mobile health clinics where women queue up to access services they cannot get elsewhere.

Paul filed stories every day for the BBC news website which provide a fascinating and colourful insight into the communities he visited.