The Philippines is a country in Southeast Asia made up of 7,107 islands. Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao are the main islands and Manila is the capital city. The Philippines is the 13th  most populous country in the world with close to 98 million people.

The Tampa Bay area is the second largest region in Florida and the fourth largest in the southeastern United States with nearly 4 million people.

Somalia, a country in the Horn of Africa, is one of the poorest and most war-torn nations in the world. Somalia suffers from the effects of a civil war which started in 1991 and which has caused instability and destruction throughout the country and in the lives of its people.