I Promise Africa [Film]

This short documentary film (lasting 2.40 minutes) celebrates the lives of HIV - positive orphans from the Moran tribe in Samburu, Kenya. The director and producer, Jerry Henry, visited the village of Majiwa, Kenya to document the opening of a National Institute on Aging (NIA) Health and Resource Centre, as commissioned by Urgent Africa, a charitable non-governmental organisation based in the USA.

The documentary revists Henry’s time with the HIV-positive orphans, wherein he develops a special relationship with the villagers. Before departure, the village leader named Henry “Thoun” which means “hero” in the native language of Luoh. What defines this film for the director, is that he filmed the documentary during the terrorist attack in New York, of September 11 2001.

He wrote, “It made me realize that regardless of where you are in the world, tragedy is something that everyone experiences; sometimes simultaneously. No matter how big or small it is we must always remember to never forget.”