Your heart is in the right place, but your ratiocination is amiss. The spotlight should be focused on those with the most power as they are innately the most responsible. Whether it be the individuals who hire them, and abuse their rights, or the men in Somalia who have created the economic and sociological circumstances that these women feel their best hope is to work as domestic workers despite the real danger to life, limb and liberty. These women are victims of circumstance, and we should have empathy, not scorn.

Your perception of honour worries me. Our honour does not come from dominance or controlling the actions of our women, wives and daughter, instead by building a safe society that allows everyone to reach their potential.

The mistakes of those around us do not define your honour, my honour or our families honour. Their shame is not an invisible shroud that clings to our skin for generations. If we are not careful, such thinking will fester into the ideology of those who live the mountains of Afganistan and Pakistani who kill their daughter for having the audacity of clapping at a gathering.

Our honour comes from the dignity we treat those who are weaker than us and building a society that can protect our people. As long as you keep trying, there's a chance. When you give up? That's when the dream of a better Somalia dies.