Ankur Desai

So that gives that reality as a comfort blanket that I'm allowed to take my time.

After being unveiled here, the sculpture is touring art fairs before finding a permanent home back in London.

Her creator, Raven Shalia de Clark, told me she wanted to show the beauty in what can sometimes be portrayed as the ugly side of pregnancy and made a conscious effort to include things such as cellulite.

Recognizing how much women's bodies change throughout the postpartum period and throughout pregnancy as well, I think it was important to reframe a lot of the kind of the visible nature of cellulite within this context.

You know, we see it in terms of when we're thinking about how we shame women for their bodies and what that means in terms of, you know, snapback culture.

But for us, it was really about inverting that.

And it's nothing to be ashamed of.

And particularly within this context, you know, it is a moment of beauty.

It's a moment of transformation.

Research in 2021 found only 4% of London's statues are of women.

That's fewer than are of animals.

The vast majority, too, show white people.

Raven told me she designed Mother Verite to be racially ambiguous, so as many women could relate to her as possible.

Still, the women of colour I've spoken to here, like Blandine, say they can see themselves in the statue.

And it means a lot.

Next, in Bangladesh, around six million people live on river islands known as chars, which are formed from sediment and provide fertile land for growing crops.

But they're often prone to erosion and flooding, so their inhabitants have to keep moving and can struggle to access services.

One organisation called Friendship is trying to change that, providing healthcare, education and help adapting to climate change.

Last month, it was among the winners of a $1.3 million Earthshot prize set up by Prince William to recognise innovative solutions to environmental and climate issues.

Claire Bates has been finding out about one of their projects bringing education to women on these fragile river islands.