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Today, I am honored to share the story of a woman named Sahra Mohamud. She lives in Bossaso, Somalia.

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<em style="color: #808080;">Photo Credit: UNICEF Somalia – Susannah Price reports</em>

Sahra goes door to door spreading a life-saving message. I am snowbound in Boston, sharing her story on the internet.

We are very different women working under very different circumstances, but as I learned more and more about her story I realized that at the essence,

I honestly don't know what I would have done if I had had my children before the age of blogs and the internet. The amount of support and information I get from my fellow mothers from all over the world was a lifeline in those early das of motherhood and still provides much needed support and at times comic relief now that I'm a wizened old mother of three.

Whether I'm reaching out to an old friend across the country, or to a woman I've never met around the corner, the internet has made it perfectly clear to me that

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<h3><em>This story comes from <a href="http://www.unicef.org/">UNICEF Somalia</a> and is part of Shot@Life’s ’28 Days of Impact’ Campaign. A follow up to <a href="http://www.shotatlife.org/blogust/">Blogust</a> to raise awareness for global vaccines and the work being done by Shot@Life and their partners to help give children around the world a shot at a healthy life. Each day in February, you can read another impactful story on global childhood vaccines. Tomorrow, don’t miss <a href="http://spanglishbaby.com/">Ana’s post</a>! Go to <a href="http://www.shotatlife.org/impact">www.shotatlife.org/impact</a> to learn more.  </em></h3>
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