UW News
Rachel Chapman
January 21, 2020
A foundation for ‘safe motherhood’ created with and for the Somali community
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On a recent Saturday evening, a dozen women gathered around a table at a community room in the White Center neighborhood of Seattle, settling in with snacks and conversation. The evening’s program would be more education than entertainment, an opportunity to discuss topics so sensitive that, without the group of women assembled that night, might…