A TED Talk – “Saints of Somalia.”

I was inspired, impressed and saddened by watching this and wanted to share it with you. These women are amazing … they do so much and there is so much more to do.

Love that in their quest to help women see that they don’t have to be victims, they’ve converted an old storage unit in the refuge camp into a prison. If a man beats his wife, he is thrown in there immediately.

From the TED bio page …

Dr. Hawa Abdi is an OB/GYN (and a lawyer) who lives and works in Somalia with her daughters, also doctors, Dr. Amina Mohamed and Dr. Dr. Deqo Mohamed. In 1983, she opened a small clinic in Somalia — which became a refuge as Somalia devolved into civil war. Her one-room clinic has grown to encompass a hospital, a school and a refugee camp for some 90,000 women and children, she estimates, who were displaced by war.

As I sit here, half a world away … is there anything I can do to help them?