Somaliland, a region of Somalia that lay in ruin from years of war, suffers some of the world’s highest rates of infant and maternal mortality. But 15 years ago, Edna Adan fulfilled a lifelong dream by building a nonprofit hospital and nursing school to address the health needs of women. In this episode, we hear Edna, the former first lady of Somalia, describe her path toward achieving that dream and the myriad obstacles she faced, and still faces, in reducing infant and maternal mortality.
