FROM VITAL VOICES The camp sheltering thousands of displaced Somali women and families run by Global Leadership Awards 2013 honoree and 2010 Glamour Woman of the Year Dr. Hawa Abdi and her daughters is under siege again. Earlier this month, armed soldiers destroyed the large wall that protects the compound, which includes a school, a 400-bed hospital, and an internally displaced-persons camp that has housed as many as 90,000 people during Somalia’s two-decades-long civil war.
Dr. Hawa shared a video calling on the international community to contribute funds to rebuild and provide security, and to call attention to her plight.