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.
Director: Annie Wong, Thomas Jennings
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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…
