The Admirable Women of Somaliland

Climate change is fueling humanitarian crises all over the world from Texas to Sierra Leone and people are coming together to help each other recover, but in Somaliland women are leading the charge.

Somaliland is located in northwest Somalia and is a "self-declared independent state" (Holly Miller, the guardian), which is suffering from the effects of a severe drought, like other East African countries. The drought in Somaliland has crippled many villages. As a result, women are emerging as leaders in a traditionally patriarchal society. Women are doing all they can to protect and provide for their community.

Women have come together in Gorgeysha, a small village, to form a coalition. Many of these women are illiterate and have been denied the right to education, and yet that has not stopped them from combining their effort and resources to not only care for themselves, but migrants too that have come from all over the region in desperate search for help.



https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/08/somaliands-women-show-kindness-and-leadership-in-the-face-of-a-humanitarian-crisis