I love Salma Hayek! Salma (we are secretly friends and she has demanded that I refer to her by her first name) recently visited Sierra Leone on a humanitarian effort with UNICEF and Pampers. If you didn’t see her on Oprah about a year ago, let me fill you in. Salma is the spokeswoman for the Pampers “One Pack = One Vaccine” campaign which supports UNICEF’s efforts to eliminate tetanus. For each pack of specially marked Pampers diapers sold, parent company Proctor and Gamble donates the cost of one tetanus vaccine to UNICEF.

To be honest, up until seeing this video I didn’t pay much attention to the diapers I was buying. I buy Pampers brand regularly but never made an effort to grab the package with the special UNICEF sticker on it. I watched the Oprah episode with Salma but at the time I unconsciously, and perhaps selfishly, decided that this effort wasn’t “close to home”. I have now changed my ways…Sorry Big O, but Cynthia McFadden beat you on this one!

Click on the link below titled, “Salma in Sierra Leone” to watch this video and you will see why. The video is both heartbreaking and inspiring all at the same time. I hope you get as much out of it as I did. Keep the Kleenex handy and when you are done crying let me know what you think…

Salma In Sierra Leone

-Victoria