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this one? You pick in this one you leave. It's like you were color coding people on a war field. I was fit to like provide medical care and whatever were over my head, like this is serious, serious, make

you take you care. So, based on the allegations you have heard that she was an unlicensed medical facility, that she was providing medical care without having medical qualifications, do these allegations surprise you, given you what you know about how and geos operated here, Of course they don't surprise me. Jim mc graham was twenty two years old when he found a pamphlet recruiting young healthy men to serve their country.

It was November nineteen and millions of American men were going abroad to fight in World War Two, but Jim was a conscientious objector. Instead of taking up arms, he found other ways to help by planting trees fighting forest fires. But he wanted to do more. This call for volunteers sounded like an opportunity to provide a worthwhile service, not

just to our country, but to all humanity. Jim volunteer to be a guinea pig in a study called the Minnesota Starvation Experiment run by Dr Ansel Keys of the University of Minnesota, DA. He was featured in a documentary

by Colorado State University. We knew fairly well what a star of person looked like and what starvation did to the human body, but until this time, there had never been an opportunity to measure exactly what changes take place in the body under starvation conditions, Nor had there ever been any scientific tests to determine what best to feed a star of person to bring him or her back to health. The project's goal to learn how to treat

starvation after the war ended. The experiment was fairly simple. Thirty six men were semi starved for six months. Their diet was modeled after famine diets of bread, potatoes, porridge, and turn ups. They continued walking at least twenty two miles a week, taking classes in the university and working at the lab. Jim was six ft two and he began the study at one hundred seventy five pounds, but it wasn't long before the famine diet took a toll.

Most of us suffered from edema, the collecting of liquid in the body, some more than others. I always woke up in the morning with my face puffy on the side I was lying on. Sometimes my ankles and knees were puffy. I look in the mirror and see that my eyes looked hollow, my cheeks were only a thin covering for the bones in my face, and my hair was getting thinner. If I tried to smile, it was

just a grimace, and I never laughed. As Jim and the other participants rapidly lost weight, some dropped to a mirror one hundred pounds, and the psychological changes mounted, fatigue, depression, paranoia, symptoms that previously hadn't been attributed to starvation. We became very irritable and intolerant. Little things seemed to annoyance. We were no longer polite with each other or with ssitors. It seemed as if the veneer of civilization had been removed,

leaving bear the animal underneath. Years later, researchers would publish one thousand, three hundred pages on the scientific effects of starvation. The research remains key to a lot of what we know and still don't know about malnutrition. I have experienced hunger and the apathy and depression that goes with it, but we lived in sanitary quarters under the constant care of doctors. Furthermore, we knew that it would all be

over on a certain date. I often think how horrible it would be to be starving and never know when it would end, if ever. In association with I Heart Media, I'm Halema ge Condy, Malcolm Burnley, I'm Roger Gola and this is the missionary episode six, one hundred five children. There are a few basic facts that everyone agrees on.

Renee had run a health facility for malnourished children, It was unlicensed for years, and at least one hundred five children died, But those facts alone didn't support the worst of the allegations that Renee was a baby killer. We've passed through years worth of Renee's blogs, social media posts, talked to missionaries and activists, but there hasn't been much

else to support these accusations and allegations. It was obvious to me that there were more perspectives out there, more people we needed to speak with, a completely different world that we hadn't tapped into yet. That was Uganda's health care system and the near dozen medical staff who worked with RENEE for years. I knew that I had to

get into that world. The first time I traveled throughout eastern Uganda, passing by farms huge plantain and cassava plants, pineapples and sugarcane fields, I thought, how could there be severe malnutrition in a place like this? Um Dr Esther I am a pediatrician. I also have a PhD in a clean connutrition and I am the head of Manama

Jimon Nutrician Unit, Malago National Referra Hospital. Dr Barby Rickare has been working on malnutrition for more than twenty years and then one of the GYMO Nutrition Unit is the top children's nutrition unit in the country. About one percent to two percent of children, especially in the five years of age, severely malnourished, so it is that big. On average, we admit about one hundred children per month with severe acute malnutrition just on one world that nutrition or unit,

so that's is quite a big number. Malnutrition remains a complex, mysterious problem, especially for children in Uganda. They're quite a number of causes or predisposing factors to malnutrition. People are surprised why we have a lot of food and yet we have malnurised children. But these children may not be taken in adequate amounts. And also the quality of the

food and how is this food prepared. In Uganda, the main stables of today are mostly starchry foods like cassava and maize that lack a lot of vitamins that babies need. A lot of other countries have addressed this by fortifying or enriching their stable foods. In the US, wheat flour is often enriched with iron and folic acid. Table salt has iodine, but that hasn't happened much in Uganda. Food

isn't the only factor either. Also diseases. We find some chronic diseases like tibi or v or diarrhea, diseases predisposed that children getting malnutrition. These combined factors were deadly for malnourished children There's another oddity to malnutrition too. Instead of becoming skin and bones, some children's bodies swelled, especially around their stomachs. It's an image that many Americans are likely familiar with seeing on the news starving children with bloated bellies.

The swelling is called edema, and it's similar to what happened to the adults under the Minnesota experiment. With some children, their faces can become so swollen as if they're having an allergic reaction, their eyes get puffy. In Ghana, this is called quash or car, meaning the disease of the displaced child. It mostly refers to when a baby is weaned prematurely after their mothers become pregnant again. Quash your car also has local names in Uganda of Bosi and

Luganda and Lose and Lugisu. Experts like Dr Esther Barbera Care are still trying to research why certain children develop it and why others simply become incredibly skinny. Around the time that Renee had established serving his children, malnutrition was the direct cause of more than a third of deaths for children under five years old in Uganda, and malnourished children or nine times more likely to die than healthy ones.

Even when children were able to get to hospitals like i Mlago and be seen by experts, there were still a high chance they would die. They'll take an example of ard that is them Lego and a demnutrition or unit they come verily to when they are critically ill with these complications and you try your best, but still about ten to may day. This is unacceptable and acceptably high. As grim as those numbers are, it's actually an improvement. Ten years ago, the mortality rate for children with severe

malnourishment in Uganda was even higher. Sometimes between twenty and of severely malnourished children died in hospitals. That was the scale of the problem and that's why Uganda created a new system to build more health centers and clinics in hard hit areas. Testing testing, Okay, so could you just say your name, um and your profession. Okay. My name is r Dr Honey Forbach. I'm a retired medical practitioner

and a nutritionist. I worked in the National Hospital Hospital from nine and then moved on to the National Nutrition Unit where I worked until two thousand and nine. Then I moved into programming and have recently retired Dr Hannover Pacho is another top child nutrition expert in Uganda. In two thousand nine, the year when they moved back to Uganda, Dr Pacho had turned her sights on working with the Ugandan Health Ministry to create policies to address the child

malnutrition problem. She was instrumental in developing Uganda's new national guidelines on managing these cases, a step by step manual. Up until then, treatment of severe malnutrition had mostly been centered around hospitals. What was wrong with that approach? The approach was not wrong, except that there were challenges. One is that the care give us would stay for very long and in five distance away from their families because those facilities were few. And also in the course of

staying in hospitals, they would get cross infections. Yes, the plan Doctor but Show helped create was to decentralize the care of severe and moderately malnourished children. The goal was to reach children who weren't accessing hospitals and to stop children from becoming severely malnourished in the first place. The community specifically is supposed to have a structure that identifies children with manetrition and refer them ali to the health facility.

This model has been shown to reduce the mortality of child malned Chrisian. The idea was to move them up the pyramid of care as the cases got more complex. Children with moderate malnutrition could be treated out patient, as in they go to rural health clinics for checkups and get nutritional formulas, but they stay at home. On the other end were severe cases of malnutrition, especially those with complications.

These children were supposed to be enrolled in full time in patient care, but this was also a last resort for only the most intractable cases. Once a child's health was stabilized, they could be transferred back home for the rest of their treatment. If this sounds familiar, it's because

these are the guidelines. Renee says. She modeled serving his children after sending out social workers to teach about nutrition and screen for children with severe malnutrition in the villages, and then taking those sickest children back to their facility in Jina. I asked Dr Bachou which region was the worst in two thousand nine, the year Renee sat up serving his children. I it was an eastern region, Eastan region Lamutumba. It was a real case of severeli Malarui.

It was really an emergency that the country had to move in to ensure that a nutrition in it was established. The name Nama Tumba sounded familiar. Later I went through my notes again and there it was. One of the children in the court case against Renee. His name Tolala Kifabi, his village Namatumba. We began this podcast and reporting this story with the court case against Renee. The fact that two Ugandan women were suing an American missionary over the

deaths of their children. That to me was the most important part of this story because it seemed like this was a rare opportunity for Ugandan's to get justice. We had heard so many allegations, but these were the actual victims. Their stories were essential and piecing together what went wrong. Starting with the court documents that Renee submitted, I thought I could find material evidence that Renee was running this quack facility. Now to Lale is one of two children

whose mothers are suing Renee Bach. He died after being treated at serving his children for seven days. His mother, Gimbo, was given fifty thousand Ugandan shillings less than fifteen dollars for her loss and a bag of beans. We mentioned his story in episode one. In the court documents, Kimbo says, quote, the women from Serving his children were not doctors and may have done something unprofessional that led to the death of my child. Essentially, she thinks something went wrong, but

doesn't know exactly what now. The lawyers say Serving his children violated to Lally's right to life because the facility wasn't licensed at the time. The case also states that they violated his right to privacy because to Lali's photo was posted on Serving his Children's social media account. I managed to track down the health workers who oversaw Tolali's case. It was early two thousand thirteen when to Lali first became sick in his village of Namutumba. Namatumba is about

an hour away from two major hospitals. The local health center diagnosed to Alale with malnutrition and directed Gimbo to buy nutrition supplements. This should have been a sign that the system was working, but according to Gimbo, she couldn't afford the medicine, so she returned to the village empty handed. Sophie said, those are the children. Renee and her employees were trying to help. She didn't get children who were

fine from the villages. She was getting children from the ridges who are desperate to bring them and how at least for them to reford Esmail. That's Sophie Mutessi, a midwife who worked at serving his children from around two thousand twelve to two thousand fifteen. She has a lot of experience bridging the gap between villages and hospitals. To Lally was a prime example of those gaps. Even when services are nearby, many Ugandans, especially the poor, faced too

many barriers to accessing them. Patients have to pay for basic supplies like gloves, gaus, bedsheets, medicines, even mats to sleep on, and they have to pay for that upfront. Those who can visit the hospital can't always stay long. That's what made serving his children different. They paid for everything by time they reached hospital. Then need is not only treatment. The mother is stressed, that's taken three days

without eating, no, so not everything blessed sickness. Don't you reach at Rene's place, the treat her psychological and give her class time for resting. In July two thou thirteen, Gimbo was pregnant with another child by now months had passed since they visited the health center, so to a,

Lali's condition had likely gotten worse. Serving his children passed by Gimbo's village during one of their outreaches, the staff asked her to take to Lale to the facility in Ginger, So Gimbo sent her mother to go with tolal A. But this didn't seem to be the same serving his children that Jackie Kramlck, the American nurse and volunteer, had criticized. By now, the organization had heated her warnings and hired trained nurses to join the staff. When Tolally arrived at

serving his children, he was in really bad shape. He was severely dehydrated, his body was swollen, his skin was peeling, and his condition would only continue to worsen. Sophie Mutessi took care of tolal A on at least two shifts. According to her notes, Tolally was no longer able to eat the special formulas made for severely malnourished children, which is a bad sign. He also had diarrhea and was vomiting.

Looking at her own notes, Sophie said that there was no difference between the food they were feeding him and what was coming out of Tol's body. That was a comment, why is that serious for the rest of us. They weren't medical like you are putting milk here. It was the milk coming down, which means no digestion was taking place. Does that mean the digestive system just isn't working down? Not working hm, urinating one or four times, dehydrated, Continue

with plants, rehydrate your got you chosen. He spent, So that was the end of your shift. One of the early lessons of the Minnesota starvation experiment was that you have to be very careful about how you refeed or rehabilitate patients. Dr Barbara Carey told me about something called refeeding syndrome. Refitting syndrome is a phenomenon or a condition that occurs to manorite children when you're beginning to feed them.

They have had electrolytes that imbalanced, that are not in right order, so when you begin to feed them, then that may worsen the condition. This causes a rapid crossing of some electrolytes into the cells, others out of the cells, and then that causes derangement in the body function and

then they may Die. Here's Dr Barbara carry talking about the therapeutic milk products they use that Lago and how they monitor at the way we manage this or we prevent it is we use a feed usually we call it therapeutic feed, or it is like a medicine, but in form of food. It has the right balance of these nutrients and we give it cautiously slowly until the body is learning or beginning to learn to use these nutrients.

Then always tip up the nutrient of value, especially the protein and the energy, so that now this baby or this toad begins to gain weight again. So it is actually a serious killer if you're not using the rate feeds in the beginning before the body function returns to them. The special formula she's talking about our f SEM five and F one two powders you can mix with water, developed in the nineties as an emergency treatment for child malnutrition.

Refeeding syndrome is something that critics like Jackie said Renee was clueless about. But if you feed a child too much or the wrong type of substance too early, it can kill them. Even though Renee had access to these feeding formulas, which are normally distributed by units f or the Ministry of Health. If a child is in danger of refeeding syndrome, they should be around specialists who can

recognize it. In that case, I thought maybe Renee had failed to refer to Lally to a hospital when he should have been, which would have been a clear sign of negligence. But in the court case, Renee says she left the country the day to Lally arrived at the facility, and she submitted her passport pages as proof, which means in theory, she wasn't there to make the hour. By our calls about to Lally, that decision would have fallen on the most senior person there. Mudasi causa as first

professionalism msconsin she was employing professionals, qualified people. That's what I knew. Oh, I know she was employing professionally. They didn't have quacks there, okay. Mudosie is a clinical officer who works at the now Lifenia Children's Hospital in Ginger. They're kind of in between nurses and doctors. They play a big role in filling the healthcare gaps because they can practice medicine, diagnosed cases, performed surgeries, but they don't

spend as many years studying medicine as doctors. We Darcie would come into serving his children a few times a week to check on the children, write prescriptions and sometimes refer them to the hospital. Actually, when I found him, he was working at the hospital. As these are doctors notes. Do you recognize these? Yeah, I suppose my handwriting. I

had him read over the notes on Tolally's case. Then I asked him if there was any sign that he had requested that Tolally be referred to the children's hospital. He didn't. He thought serving his children was managing the case. Fine, this one, this one was it was story. But you would do, you'd manage. That's why when you look at to these records, I was saying, well, there's some improvement. The new complaints were not there. Yeah, so cooking and stable.

Days later, on July sixteen, two thousand thirteen, Totally died of severe malnutrition. I asked Dr Patow to read over Tollly's medical documents as a second opinion, to see if there were any irregularities, any sign of misconduct, anything that went wrong reading water, you know, how He examined the patient, came up with the tentative diagnosis, and then returned that the treatment protocol, I think he must have had some

you know background, yeah, or for managing this kiss? Is there any point so far where this child should have been in a hospital? Do you think? I don't know, I don't know to commit. But then it's this jealous put on oxygen, this child was put on ivy. This child was you know, put on antibiotics, the antibiotics and was being monitored. So not knowing this situation A then I would assume that this is a health facility with

the trained health focus. What if it's me She has all this sophisticated a medical equipment and she is not trained. Who who decides to when to take action or not action? I was just as baffled as Dr Pato. Initially, I thought by tracking down for Lolly's journey, I would find the prime example of Renee's medical misconduct, whether she had done medicine herself or made decisions that had led to to Allalay's death, But to Alway's case, hadn't done that.

In fact, it showed the opposite that Renee had hired qualified Uganda ners in medical professionals at least by two thousand thirteen. It showed that they were the ones who had treated to Lala and didn't bring him to the local hospital. Ultimately, it showed that Tolally had died despite their best efforts because severe malnutrition is so hard to treat at that stage. That makes Tolal a one about least one hundred five children who died at Serving His Children,

And I keep thinking back to that number. We've talked about it throughout this podcast. One hundred five children died. I mean, it's shocking every time I hear it. And remember those are just the numbers that Serving his Children admits to, and they provided them a couple of years ago, and given the inaccuracies in their documentation, that number could be way higher. We don't have the medical docum mints of the other children who died at Serving His Children.

That said, the number one hundred five still seems like a lot to me. Here's the math. Between two thousand and ten and two thousand fifteen, one hundred five children out of nine hundred forty who were treated in patient at Serving His Children died. That's a mortality rate of eleven percent. But that's nearly half the mortality rate in Uganda's top hospital after learning about how hard it is to treat severe child malnutrition. That number doesn't look as

bad as it did in the beginning. Based on that number alone, it could be tempting to say that serving his children helped save more children from malnutrition than had died. But there's one obvious caveat that we can't forget. Even though to Lolly had gotten quality care from quality Ugandan medical professionals when he died, serving his children was still an unlicensed facility. Wake up, Africa, you're trying to come open up your pie gone Helen. Welcome to Africa. Watch

on the Dr Mombi Show. My name is Dr mombys Iraki. How you're doing. How's everything going? I pray you well in everything earthing. I just hope everything is going absolutely fantastically for you and you're living your best life. Now. I've got a story that got me just I even wanted to just throw this at someone for real. It got me so emotional. And it's all about this a fake ass, you know, white supremacist. You ain't even a doctor.

This YouTube show aired on February five, two nineteen, when the news of renee Bach and serving his children was just starting to spread online. She wasn't deported, she wasn't charged, The health ministry in Uganda didn't belaunch any kind of investigation against and she's still in Uganda till this day. It's crazy. So what they're doing now is their demanding

that this question has nagged me throughout this story. In the past year, I learned Uganda does have a lot of rules and regulations that are sometimes complex and bureaucratic, but they're there. So how had Renee been able to buy and procure medicine for years, to coordinate blood transfusions, get lab tests, order specialized nutritional formulas, and eventually higher

legitimate staff, all without a license. We couldn't both say that you gone that had laws and regulations that Renee hadn't followed without recognizing that someone was responsible for enforcing them. Could you introduce yourself. I'm doctor Cartoon by Cento executive or you're gonna Medican Dental Console. It's a government which is in charge of regulity in the practice of doctors and their facilities. I'm in doctor Saintongo's office in Kampala.

It's not too far from the country's biggest hospital and Lago. Doctor sin Tongo is one of those matter of fact expert types. He just doesn't beat around the bush. He told me he hadn't heard about these latest accusations that Dr Mumby was talking about against renee Bach or serving his children until he got a call from the Minister of Health saw that the video running. I don't seen it, so she wanted it to know. Are the issues to do that fast? So it today and the producer a

primary portion. So now he had to get to the bottom of it fast. Doctor sin Tongo assembled a three person team to go out and investigate the claims against serving his children. Dr Katumba tried to find other people who had worked at serving his children in Ginger or the mothers in the court case, but they didn't find them and they had limited funds to continue investigating, so we didn't get to the opportunity. I tried to get to details at what happened Deforma clinics because unfortunate today

put in a good doctor. We also didn't have contact of the people had to complain. I had some better luck and more time to track down some of these folks. I knew that there were plenty of nurses and doctors involved with serving his children over the last ten years, but only a handful were part of the actual court case.

They would have seen firsthand how things had worked there, and it seemed like no one else was talking to them, not the lawyers, not the media, and not the government investigators.

After months of pouring over court documents and medical databases and criss crossing the country on buses and motorcycles, I managed to track down eight nurses, three doctors, a nutritionist, and a medical officer who at one point or another had worked at Serving his Children, but only a few were willing to go on the record about their time there. It was easy to see why they wouldn't want to

get involved in this mess. After all, if something wrong had happened at Serving his Children and they didn't report it, they could lose their licenses. But one of them, a nurse named Violet, was willing to go on the record. So I'm on the way to Kagadi, which is a town that's in western Uganda, close to order with the DRC, and I'm searching for a nurse named Violet. So I called her a few days ago and explained what we're

trying to do. Um it's a Sunday, so I'll probably have to wait for her to get out of church. Violent Auto Beatrix had worked at Serving His Children in two thousand twelve for about six months. She's now a government nurse and the opposite side of the country, about eight hours away from Ginger. When we met at a hotel, I realized she hadn't heard anything about the case. She was exactly the kind of source I wanted to speak

with when I just got there. Nothing much was told to me about how the organization started, but being someone who's looking for a job, someone who is jobless, I just took on. They didn't tell me that we have a opened that organization wasn't experienced medically. Violet told me

she had her reservations about serving his children. She had a lot lot of experience working at big NGOs like Doctors without Borders, but she didn't think she and her fellow nurses were equipped to deal with extreme cases of malnutrition. And she was a trained midwife, but also didn't think they were equipped to have women giving birth there. Violet knew her own limits, but didn't think Renee knew hers.

I would see how read she would read through books, and then she would apply, let's see her reading medical books. Would see how read medical books and an apply and and she would she would do the medical, the nothing, the treatment, all that. Yeah, Violet agreed line by line with what Jackie Kramlick, the American nurse, had said. Renee did blood transfusions, I v s, intramuscular injections, spinal taps, femeral artery punctures. So here was someone who categorically thought

Renee had done wrong. This is the type of person who could have said something at the time. I asked her if she did, there's no I would say, but please, I want to see your papas, but please wise your certificate displayed here. There was no way I would ask that. Why not, Well, it would look like I'm attacking her. When I entered there, I saw her actions. She acted a medical person. She introduced everything to me and we

started practicing together with her. So I kept it to myself, and I'm like, after all, I won't work here for long. Violet told me that government nurses like her make about one hundred dollars a month. She needed the job at serving his children. This was something I had heard from other former employees too. They said the nurses were too subordinate to say anything, So I wondered, what about the doctors.

We need a doctor, plain and simple, a doctor who can be there in emergencies, give your action to our nursing staff, and provide an in house diagnosis for the many complications that come with severe malnutrition. In May two thousand twelve, a year before Tolali's case, Renee put out a blog post asking for donations twenty two thousand dollars

so she could hire a doctor and a nutritionist. A doctor who can come alongside us as we strive to save the lives of children that faced the horrible reality of malnutrition. A doctor who shares our passion for serving the Lord. Until she hired that full time doctor, she had other doctors coming in periodically. One was Dr Alex Wassamoka, who came in a few times a week. He worked at serving his children for about six or seven months

in two thousand twelve. Now he's a doctor at Ginger Hospital and when he looked back at serving his children, he saw nothing but things to be proud of. So there was no time, not even a single time, when there was no nurse to attend to the children. These children were actually treated in the best way I could say, the best way possible. In his view, sometimes kids were

better off at serving his children than the hospital. It was well equipped and had to study supply of oxygen, which many hospitals often run out of, and it was small, so it had a good nurse to patient ratio. When I compared that with what was in the hospital, you know, the hospital, the numbers were so enormous. The nurses in the hospital are a few story could not attend to

all the children in time and as required. You know, when the nurse patient ratio is not a proper then even the quality of care drops because then the children were too many compared to the staff available. Dr Wassamocha wasn't the only one who thought this. I spoke with at least two other doctors who had worked part time at serving his children who thought the facility overall had done a good job. So did nurses like Sophie Mutessi, who you heard from earlier. It was exactly these sorts

of competing narratives that had stumped Dr Katumba's investigation. He had heard news about RENEE killing hundreds of kids performing medicine trampling on Uganda's rules. But then when he managed to visit Serving his Children's brand new facility less than two hours outside of Ginger, he found staff who were properly licensed, a facility with all of the right paperwork and an administration that was going by the book. Where were all of the dead kids? The main component was

in India District unaffortunated. So we wrote a report and it had administer that that was our immutation, that we couldn't find a compliment for the Gingha site. The issue was that all of the accusations against Renee were made about work she had done at an old facility in Ginger. The team didn't have the time or resources to investigate claims at a facility that no longer existed, and even if they did, they would have probably heard the same

conflicting things that I did. The report they submitted concludes this that they are unable to support allegations that children died in large numbers due to serving his children, and that they found no evidence that Renee Boch was treating children. The report was released, but the case was kept open in case any additional evidence or sources ever came forward. The experience that Dr sin Tanko had, I think speaks

to how the whole story has unfolded. We had entered the story with huge, big, scary, outrageous testimonies about Renee and what she had done, the number of children that had died, the court case, but so far a lot of that evidence wasn't actually supporting the worst of the allegations. In fact, if anything, it suggested that it wasn't as bad as we thought. But what had become crystal clear to me was that there had been a bigger structural

failure that goes well beyond Renee. And this mattered to me as somebody who has covered health and human rights in the region, because at the end of the day, Renee's only one person and Geo's like serving his children, had been encouraged allowed to operate in Jinja for years. They were able to interact with other hospitals and facilities

and pharmacy ease. And despite the fact that yes, Uganda is a country with laws and regulations, those same laws and regulations hadn't managed to regulate her, and staff who were licensed, who were credible hadn't stopped it either. Next time on the missionary, I just couldn't understand how people could look at the same evidence we were looking at and come to such different conclusions. And I said, but sir,

these kids will die if we send them home. And he said, you're right, they will die, but it's no longer your problem, So get them out of here at before five o'clock before I'm taking you to jail. I remember I would walk into like cafes and people would leave when they saw me, Like I went to like missionary events, and people would like refuse to speak to me. And this was my sort of ah ha moment. This was my wake up call that I had been lied

to directly to my race. The Missionaries produced an association with iHeart Media. It's written and reported by Roger Gola, Helene mcgegandhi, and Malcolm Burnley. It's produced by Michelle Lands and Ryan Murdoch. Mark Lotto is our story editor. Our executive producer is Mongiter. Our fact checker is Austin Thompson. Mixing by Josh Rogison and voice acting by Taylor Kaufman.