Her memories of Somalia include playing on the beach at Mogadishu with Somali children.

"Within months, Somali children again would be dying in the streets," Mr. Clinton said.

Somali children destined to become prostitutes are exchanged for a truckload of weapons, given to a warlord.

Nearly 1/3 of Somali children are malnourished.

Less than 1 in 3 Somali children are enrolled in school and boys outnumber girls almost 2 to 1.

Small numbers of Somali children are trafficked to Tanzania for labor and sexual exploitation.

We get to know these Somali children that own guns larger than they are, in a conflict no one seems to care about.

The school has since reopened and continues to work to improve the lot of Somali children.

We cannot say we didn't know about the starving Somali children and the families living hand to mouth not 10 miles from our comfortable suburbs.

Stick-thin Somali children got even sicker eating chocolate bars.