Rovina's Choice

  • Documentary
9/26/2025
22

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Through the plight of one woman trying to save her daughter from starvation, “Rovina’s Choice” traces the effects of Donald Trump’s executive order banning US foreign aid - made within hours of being sworn into office in January 2025. Rovina Naboi’s devastating story represents the global impact of that decision on the world’s most vulnerable populations, and how it stopped decades of progress combating severe malnutrition.

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    • Geronimo1967

      With President Trumps decision to cancel the funding for USAIDs overseas projects, this documentary takes us to meet Rovina in the camp in Kenya where she lives with her nine children and many others in a similarly subsistence situation. Now the question might be asked at this point. Why ought the American taxpayer be subsiding a woman with nine kids on the other side of the world? And Im guessing that the administration is hoping that most of the people who do ask that question will consider domestic expenditure more judicious, but as you watch this young woman struggle with daily decisions that truly are life and death, you ought not to be able to help feeling that the sums being spent are a sort of national equivalent to our buying a lat...

      January 18, 2026