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Today, I am honored to share the story of an incredible woman named Sahra Mohamud. Sahra goes door to door spreading a life-saving message to the mothers in her community, Bossaso, Somalia.

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

UNICEF in Somalia sponsors Child Health Days where women and children receive free vaccination and preventative care that quite literally saves lives. It's an amazing service, but incredibly, many mothers don't know about them -- or if they hear about them on the radio they may not have enough information to make the decision to go and get the healthcare offered to them.

It sounds crazy, I know, but as a fellow mother, I know how hectic life with young children can be. Mothers in Somalia are like mothers in America -- we depend on each other for information. Mothers trust each other's advice and recommendations.

Enter Sahra.

For an upcoming <a href="http://www.unicef.org/somalia/nutrition_12094.html">Child Health Day</a>, Sahra served as a social mobilizer to gain mothers’ trust and encourage families to attend the Child Health Day at the Horsed Mother and Child Health Clinic. She goes door to door and explains to mothers the importance of immunization as well as explains it is not a onetime thing; it is a process that continues if you want healthy children.

Sahra and her fellow social mobilizers are quite literally saving lives by connecting with

I'm snowbound in Boston, sharing her story to my community, which is mostly made up of mothers connected to and by the Internet.

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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