It is important to understand the difference in social conventions between Somalia and the western world. In many third world countries, including Somalia, there is a stigma towards persons with disabilities including, but not limited to, blindness, deafness, and loss of ability to walk. In some religions these disadvantages are seen as sinful, regardless if these disadvantages started at birth or were caused by an accident. This stigma creates a negative bias and creates a considerable difficulty for people affected to seek and find assistance. A better awareness of these social conventions in worlds where these ideas are much different—such as the west and first world countries—helps us understand the real difficulty in addressing these problems. It’s not just the difficulty of not being able to see or inability to walk, it’s the hard truth that these disadvantages are looked down upon and it is extremely difficult to find help.