Winner of the 2009 WAVE video awards, Voices of Truth’s purpose is simple – to convert armchair viewers into active participants in creating a better future for wherever they live. The show features guests with a fascinating message amid Hawaii's breathtaking scenery, whose primary purpose is to inspire and motivate viewers to seek out and recognize their own area of responsibility and get to work in it.

Set against the background of a global economic crisis that has hit media houses and broadcasters hard and has resulted in relentless cost-cutting by private sector media, the world’s poor are slipping further off the global agenda. IRIN Films has produced more than 50 films tackling issues ranging from the changing face of HIV to violence against women; from the human cost of climate change to the curse of unexploded cluster bombs in southern Lebanon.