(21 Feb 2025)
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Nairobi, Kenya – 07 February 2025
1. Various drone shots of children playing at Nyumbani Children’s Home
2. Various of children queueing up to take ARVs (antiretroviral medicine)
3. Boy receiving tablet and picking cup of water
4. Boy taking medicine and drinking with water as nurse looks on
5. Silhouette of children walking out to play
6. Various of Sister Tresa Palakudy and her colleagues looking after little children as they play with toys
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Sister Tresa Palakudy, Chief Nurse at Nyumbani Children’s Home:
"USAID started bringing ARVs free of charge. That was the time we put all our children on ARVs. Then, their lives changed, they became healthy and were able to go to school and live like any other normal child. It continued like that and now we have over one hundred alumni, who are living outside, they have families, they have children. Normal children, not infected and it is a success."
8. Wide of little children’s play area as a nurse looks on
9. Various of a little child seated on a toy pony
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Sister Tresa Palakudy, Chief Nurse at Nyumbani Children’s Home:
"America will become great again if they continue to support the poor people, those who are in need. Especially the medical care. That is what I think. America will be great again, yes. But stopping (aid) and think America will become great again, no!"
11. Various of children playing
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Sister Tresa Palakudy, Chief Nurse at Nyumbani Children’s Home:
"When we started caring for them, they were so sickly. When I came first, I saw very sick children. Like running nose, everywhere. It is like… there is no life, and it was kind of a pathetic situation."
13. Various of the Executive Director of Nyumbani Children’s Home, Judith Wamboye
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Judith Wamboye, Executive Director of Nyumbani Children’s Home:
"The future is uncertain, because the government of Kenya actually announced that they only have stock for six months. So if they don’t do anything right now, then it means we are all – its going to become actually a medical, a public health disaster."
15. Tracking shot of graveyard
16. Various of Sister Tresa looking at the graves
17. Black memorial cross of Nyumbani Children’s Home’s founder Father Angelo D’Augustino
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Judith Wamboye, Executive Director of Nyumbani Children’s Home:
"This is a life-saving situation and we cannot sit and wait and bargain on human life. So for us, it’s about human life, the lives that we need to save. Something needs to be done urgently.”
19. Various of USAID branded vehicles parked
20. Various of USAID branding on a wall of donors-branding
STORYLINE:
Two-year-old Evans was brought to Nyumbani Children’s Home in Nairobi, Kenya one year ago, suffering from HIV and tuberculosis.
He is an orphan and does not have any relatives to cater to his needs.
The home is the reason why Evans is still alive – but political decisions made thousands of miles away might spell the end of his short life.
Nyumbani provides him and 100 other children with antiretroviral medication, which they have been receiving from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) through the Kenyan government.
US President Donald Trump’s directive to freeze USAID’s funding means that Nyumbani’s access to antiretroviral drugs may end soon.
Trump’s recent executive order seeks to review all American foreign aid policy, and includes a 90-day freeze on all foreign assistance and the closure of USAID headquarters.
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