Rovina's Choice

1/18/2026

With President Trump’s decision to cancel the funding for USAID’s 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 I’m 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 latte from Starbucks. There is true poverty here -