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Hoo boy. I grew up evangelical and my aunt is actually still an African missionary - so this was a fun and interesting one for me. I gave it an 8/10 to balance out review bombers, really it's more of a 6 or 7 to me based on the quality. A lot of these kinds of docs are just being pumped out according to an HBO template now, you can't really expect them to be visionary works anymore.

Renee Bach, or the "Angel of Death," was barely an adult when she traveled to Uganda after hearing "God's call." Soon upon her arrival, with exactly 0 medical training or education, she began treating very sick children at her "Serving His Children" NGO house in Jinja, Uganda. This was a practice that escalated, went on for years - was tempered somewhat by the hiring of some doctors and nurses - and then fell apart when she was finally shut down by the Ugandan government over her NGO practicing medical treatment without a license. Renee then fled to America (with her Ugandan daughter) when she started receiving death threats, due to the online work of a political activist group called "No White Saviors."

Actually, it's hard not to draw comparisons between Renee and another ambitious white woman recently fallen from grace - Elizabeth Holmes, the infamous and currently incarcerated Steve Jobs fangirl. The psychology between these characters is pretty similar - both intelligent white women from privileged backgrounds, who both had egos that sailed unshakably into the high heavens, without a thing on Earth apparently able to stop their brains. The difference being, of course, that Holmes was motivated by personal ambition. Renee was motivated by religious convictions, which seemed to literally make her think, when opportunities found her, that she could just "be a doctor" because, whatever, "God qualifies the chosen."

It was really really difficult watching a video clip of this homeschooled woman, who came from wealth, privilege, and grew up in a religious bubble - walk around a makeshift infirmary and question the Ugandan doctors and nurses she was forced to hire, and even at times TEACH them how to treat patients. With zero licensed medical training. Just nauseating, and definitely earns the documentary's title just for that. Another fun moment was when it's recalled by a former employee of Renee's that Renee at least once admitted to administering treatment just based on "feelings she would get from God."

Now for the flipside - however unlikable Renee comes across, it's possible that the members of the activist group "No White Saviors," hellbent on seeing Renee imprisoned, hilariously sensationalizing every aspect of Renee's actions, are even more unlikable than Renee by the end of it. They were just as one-track minded as Renee and her ilk. It was also a great big face-palm moment when it's revealed that the white female founder of the activist group was ousted by the other Ugandan members, in what appeared to be a coup, shortly after finishing her interviews. With a group name like that, who could have seen it coming...

The really sympathetic figures in the doc are the Ugandan mothers, their sick and dying children, and the Ugandan medical practitioners who are understaffed and constantly lacking in funds. I felt terrible for the Ugandan doctor, who seemed to like Renee despite everything, but who also was frustrated that he, as a real doctor, struggled to maintain his practice because of no money - while Renee, a person with zero qualifications or education, flourished because of all the wealth constantly flowing to her from her church members and followers in America.

The documentary concludes by delivering just the faintest glimmer of possible self-reflection on the part of Renee - "Am I actually selfish? Do I have a savior complex?" It was just a glimmer, but kind of nice actually - like I said, I grew up in that culture, and I could sense a familiar rooted Christian pride, smugness, and lack of awareness from Renee, her mother, and her lawyer, coming through the TV screen. So - every step forward counts I guess.

Is Renee a murderer? To be sure, if she had done what she did in America, she would 100% be in prison right now. But it's harder to categorize her crime in Uganda. Many of those children were probably going to die without her misguided interventions, and there is still no evidence that any of her mistakes actually led to a child's death. In my mind, it probably is likely that she killed at least some children out of sheer negligence, especially in the early years before she was forced to hire doctors. But there's just no way to know, and there probably never will be. There was a brilliant point made by Primah Kwagala, a Ugandan human rights attorney who represented mothers of dead children who were treated at Renee's NGO - for them, "justice" meant just having Renee acknowledge them and their suffering. To see and understand them as people, and not just points in some God-sanctioned game to save as many starving black babies as one can.

(Of course - Renee's final legal settlement, unexpectedly, provided some cash to the mothers, on the provision that Renee would be deemed "not liable" for any wrongdoing).

Jackie Kramlich, a whistleblower nurse who worked briefly at "Serving His Children" before quitting over her ethical concerns on Renee, sums up the whole doc nicely at the end by pointing out that this is not an "all or nothing" issue, that missionaries still do very amazing work all over the world (my own aunt included) - but that that doesn't mean people shouldn't be held accountable, for the sin of internalizing and perpetuating the strange "savior complex" that still seems to plague the Western mind after so many centuries.

I hope everyone else enjoys this documentary. I am looking forward to seeing all the balanced and healthy discussions that will be shortly forthcoming on social media platforms :)

I'm seeing more and more documentaries of one or more persons taking upon themselves the job of law enforcement and/or medical personnel, directly risking (and ultimately destroying) their reputations and/or jeopardizing their futures, going too far to try to catch celebrity pedophiles or to fight malnutrition in poor African children. If you spend countless hours interviewing a man you're convinced is a child predator, then you should really be a properly trained police/FBI interrogator, not a local radio talk show host. And if your local hospitals are overwhelmed with children in need, you should really be a licensed pediatric doctor/nurse/P. A. before pitching in with diagnoses, administering prescriptions and performing other expert medical procedures. I can only assume that so many people are desperate for any recognition and/or fame and media exposure, that they will do just about anything to achieve those things. Plus, there's the inevitable documentary film or miniseries, archived on countless DVR drives! I'll have to rate this one a middling 6/10 stars.

This was a very well made documentary in which it showed multiple sides, I felt for every one of them but disliked them all.

We have Renee, who was a homeschooled teenager thrust into Uganda with what seemed to be very good intentions. Those of us who know US homeschoolers know they are usually good at spelling and religious studies but that's about it. I think she made a lot of morally correct decisions. She goes to Uganda, sees there's a routine issue of dying children and lack of hospitals with the capacity both monetarily and space-wise to treat them, so she starts a blog to fundraise, realizes there's still not enough facilities or well-trained individuals so she makes her own. I completely understand the logic of bulk buying medicine to give to those who can't afford it and thinking that one doctor's prescription of a problem can be repeated without issue because it's so routine. She's trying to do the same but for the major issues for children in the area of malnutrition and diarrhea. It's an impossible situation for her as a teenager, she's effectively a child and she's doing her best with death surrounding her - bear in mind, the children's death rate at her facility is less than the best hospital in the country's death rate. She's built a facility in the area that's capable of treating these issues for children but nothing else, and it's quite fair from that perspective, she never advertised them as being medically adept at every issue. It's simply a charitable facility for local children with specific issues and no money to go to hospitals.

Also in the documentary is the No White Saviors movement, led, of course, by a White Savior. The white savior named Kelsey spends her time preaching to Africans about how they are disenfranchised by White Evangelicals and neocolonialism. As the Ugandans mention in the film, they need aid, are they really going to turn away the helping hand in the name of rejecting these Western, progressive views? Kelsey is effectively preaching for Americans to send their aid... nowhere actually. She wants no aid at all. She wants Americans to keep their money because any money sent is neocolonialism.

Then we have the nurses and doctors of Renee's clinic who, frankly, are not well-trained themselves in any context. The locals employed by Renee believe that at the end of the day, their boss (Renee's) view of their work matters more than a Hippocratic Oath and the one American-trained nurse is fresh out of college trying to point out issues, as in.... A newbie, with zero-experience, thinking her textbooks and freshly-minted qualifications make her the smartest person in the room. She spends her time in the documentary pointing fingers at everyone but herself. As unlikeable as Renee is, she seemed to be very aware of how to treat malnutrition.

We also have the Ugandan mothers in the documentary who seem to have been coached by the No White Saviors movement to be upset at the facility. Riddle me this - your children suffered and died from malnutrition - who got them to this point? Would the children have died without Renee's facility? The documentary also shows mothers who had no idea their children were passed off to Renee's facility eventually.... Why. Why didn't you know where your child was. Why didn't you do everything in your power to not get them to this point - poverty is real but at the same time... so is scavenging. Take discarded food and plant the seeds, learn which naturally growing plants are edible, or raise and kill livestock to feed your family if that's what it takes, do everything in your power to not let it get there and, at the very least, oversee your kids to know whose care they are in. It seems like death was so common in the area that it's almost a given. There was also a mother with crocodile tears in the lawsuit saying her dead child was the last opportunity she had to have children - It wasn't even believable acting.

Then we have a local attorney who helped the No White Saviors Movement sue Renee's facility and, even she seemed ill-equipped to facilitate any rational lawsuit. She tried the case civilly while accusing Renee of Geneva Convention-sanctioned war crimes. Pardon? Yes you read that right, she didn't have a firm grasp of the law to make the right accusations in the right venue or report them criminally if that's what she believed was the issue. She also said that the No White Saviors movement was getting in the way of the lawsuit with their sensationalized social media posts. If actual war crimes were committed, any social media posts would have no effect on the outcome outside of bringing awareness, this statement effectively negated her own position.

Additionally featured are the deceased children. They are the only victims of the documentary. Their parents and world community failed them. I say world community because in one of the early shots, a child effectively remarks "oh a white person, are they going to give us food?" That helplessness is taught.

The cycle will continue until any one of the above-mentioned groups changes.

You go to a country, run a clinic in an area that doesn't speak english, dress like a doctor while preforming treatment on patients coming in and that's not impersonation of a doctor and you domt see anything qrong with your actions?? If the donations given were used properly to employ actual doctors and nurses and girl just took a step back to be an observer and blogger or even to take classes herself to become a RN things would have been totally different. There still may have been loss of life but it wouldn't have been because she was practicing medicine when she had no business doing so...

I was shocked but not surprised when watching this show. Renee, a woman that was home schooled and clearly not highly educated not knowing what colonisation meant and couldn't even pronounce the word, pretending to be a doctor in Africa and killing babies because of her incompetence. It was shocking to see footage of her actually treating babies taking blood etc with absolutely no medical qualifications., not even nurses training. She clearly revelled in pretending to treat babies because there was no way she could ever qualify to be a nurse let alone a doctor so I suspect she has some delusional issues. She's associated with some charity purporting to help African people and received quite a lot of money from other evangelists and this should be audited as well.

Renee has zero compassion or emotions when it comes to the babies who died in her care so I suspect a personality disorder along with her mother who can't see anything wrong with pretending to be a doctor, not in America where there are strict laws preventing this behaviour, but fine in Africa where the victims don't have any remedies and the law turns a blind eye.

The organisation trying to stop white saviours is suspect themselves especially when they get donations themselves and the money goes to ridiculous ventures that don't help anyone.

I DONT understand evangelists trying to change other cultures and people doing so much harm to the point of killing babies and they don't have any conscience and just don't care.. Renee left Africa and the dead babies left behind and seems to have just picked up where she left off in America.. without a worry in the world because what happens in Africa stays in Africa and she knows she will never go to jail, which is horrendous.

I felt so sorry for the mothers of the poor babies Renee pretended to treat as a doctor, and I hope Africa changes it's laws but I don't have much hope. The young African woman who organised the civil suit was extremely impressive and I hope she gets more support because she certainly deserves it and the money would definitely be well used and actually help those who need it.

How do you rate a series like this? There are no winners and there is no silver lining. Christian Evangelicals homeschool their kids and raise uneducated adults that feel the need to relocate themselves to third world countries and save that nation, all the while indoctrinating even more uneducated people into their religion. Renee had no business serving in a medical position. Period. The extent of any education appears to be simply a high school diploma, a homeschool diploma at that. She is regularly filmed inserting catheters, IV's, instructing actual medical professionals on how to do their job. She documented her unethical and dangerous behavior on a daily basis on her personal blog, leaving no doubt as to the extent of her deadly actions. My issue with Renee is she never took responsibility for dressing up and playing doctor. She lied as easily as she breathes whenever confronted with video footage, or her own writings proving her culpability. Her inability to accept responsibility only reinforces the negative stereotypes directed towards evangelicals and missionaries. Her lawyer later goes on Fox News (of course) to defend her outrageous behavior. Painting her and missionaries as the actual victims when over 100 children died under her care, in her "clinic," is appalling. How dare they imply she is just allowed to do whatever she wants because she's a Christian missionary. But if any news organization will stand by and lie for supposed Christians, Fox News is certainly the place to do so. Her own mother defended her abhorrent actions as well, reinforcing their belief that because they were doing something good, they were entitled to practice medicine with absolutely no medical training. The arrogance is what's most appalling about Renee and her dreadful mother, and if they had pulled that nonsense in America, she'd be in jail and Serving His Children would be bankrupt. Luckily, for her, she pulled her entitled/criminal behavior in a third world nation that isn't willing to close their doors on white missionaries that bring a lot of money and aide into their poor nation.

Side note: If you disagree with how truly uneducated these homeschooled evangelicals are, count how many times they use the word "like" and "basically." Renee also didn't know what the word 'neocolonialism' meant, the irony is not lost on this viewer.

The group that called Renee out and brought worldwide attention to her actions, No White Saviors, were majority Ugandans that employed a white woman from an identical background as Renee. They were a relatively unknown group that latched onto Renee's story and exploited it for clicks, likes and follows. They eventually, after achieving an impressive number of followers and appropriately inciting a world of hate directed at Renee, opened a library and cafe in Uganda. This appears to be something that Ugandans are not desperately in need of, as they are literally starving to death. But once the group opened this library/cafe, they threw away their white American compatriot, which was clearly rooted in vague accusations that were never presented. At this point it is clear the Ugandan people are equally as culpable when it comes to using and exploiting white people from the colonizing nations they regularly disparage and vilify. They are now internet famous, but going after white Americans will only you get you so far. They are not taking their newfound popularity and pivoting to the next Ugandan crisis, which will lead to their eventual collapse.

The only person, and I mean the only one, that really shone in this series was the Ugandan lawyer. A woman who was at the receiving end of the unjust Ugandan male-centric hierarchy worked tirelessly to finish law school and start a pro bono law group. She helped file civil suits for mothers whose children died at the hands of Renee's arrogant and entitled hands. She wasn't fighting for evangelical Christianity or for clicks or likes, she didn't argue for herself or for Uganda. She fought for women that suffered as a result of injustice at the hands of white evangelicals from America that felt they could waltz into a third world nation and play God and Doctor to those in true, desperate need.

Shame on Renee, someone that is so uneducated and arrogant it makes you sick. Shame on her mother for blindly supporting her insanely stupid daughter, shame on the churches that support these overseas missionary trips, shame on the Ugandan government that allowed this to continue, shame on No White Savior for offering only hate and zero ways to solve their countries numerous problems. As I said above, there are no winners here. Uganda is still poor, Christian missionaries are still allowed to send people to third world nations, and Renee is still a free woman that will never be smart enough to realize what she did was wrong.

Very well produced documentary.... It is not sensational and tells the story calm and collected.... The three key players are three white evangelical American women: Renee, the one who founded Saving His Children, who has had a mediocre high school education via home schooling where her mum taught her (Renee hasn't got a clue about colonialism, never heard of the word, she can't even pronounce the word and doesn't probably even know the concept) at home and who is trying to save black children in Uganda via donations from predominantly white evangelicals whom she approaches and informs via social media. Then we have Kelsey who used to be like Renee but then changed course and tries to save black people from white saviors with donations from a mixed following, whom she informs via social media and then we have white savior number three: legal nurse Jackie who is just as evangelical and wants to save black Ugandan society from mal practice by the other white savior: Renee.... White American women, all from rural USA, all brainwashed their entire lives by Christian organised religion and all three of them continu the white christian tradition of going to African countries as missionaries to directly or indirectly teach the white christian gospel and pretending to help save the non-whites. When having watched all episodes I think all three women meant well, even Renee. Renee is medium literate and finally found her calling in life, she wants to do good (pushed to do so by her life long indoctrination with white christian organised religion in a rural, relatively isolated and privileged white American culture) and really thinks she's doing all she can. But of course she oversteps a line by behaving like a nurse or doctor due to her lack of education and lack of intellectual abilities. She should just have been organising and delegating and let all the trained nurses and doctors do the practical medical work. At first you think that Kelsey and Jackie are doing good to go after Renee, but then quickly you realise they are also fulfilling the role of the white savior and they are trying to tell the Ugandan people what and who is right or wrong... and the No White Saviors organisation is just angry and in stead of building organisations that really help the people of Uganda they are playing saviors who want to free Uganda from white people without any other structural support for a population in need.... which at first seems sympathetic until you realise that they are just being angry and not helping society, not helping the poor women and children of Uganda who are poor, poorly educated, mal nourished and who have, as women not many rights within Ugandan society.... No White Saviors also depends on gifts and funding to be able to exist.... In the end the poor aren't being served and everyone is just serving themselves... In the mean time, thanks to colonialism, Ugandans who are LGBTQi+ are in danger to end up in prison or to get capital punishment, before the Brits occupied Uganda it was not illegal and an integral part of society, but the Brits with their religious puritan colonisers changed Ugandan society for the worst... many of their white laws still are law in Uganda... White people to do good out of name of religion are a plague.... they are not there to really help, they are there to do their god's work to be better cult members (and to make a living in the mean time) and they want to convert the others into their believe system...

A modern day amateur florence, that lit a kindle of hope, among malnourished children(and mums) in the african state of uganda in the 2010's.

For her bravery, being treated as a molestal killer for trying to save these poor children, that almost 99.9% for sure wouldve died a more gruesome death if it hadnt been for rene and her little base of helpers, because the ugandan authorities wont lift a finger for their domestic childrens health issues, as long as they are not issuing a health insurance, or being children of people of higher education or administration.

Im a grumpy old man, that happens to be a medical nurse, allthough nearly complete atheist, coming from a nation that is notoriously known for its missionary visions (im norwegian), i believe this tv series is a slap in the face on every poor or sick infant or child on the continent of africa.. who would dare to leave a lavish lifestyle of luxury, becoming a modern day mother teresa, becoming the evil stepmother cause she only wanted to feed their children??? Children already lost or on the brink death when found

well rene, you shouldve been carried on top of the golden throne among filantropists, even though you stretched yourself beyond educational qualifications within medicine, i can only say that you are among the few in my world that could be called a hero, a ''professor'' in the science of black african malnutrition , a seemingly unrelentless cronic condition in these areas.

Do have a good concience over your deeds done, youve saved more people than the state of uganda would proudly save over the years...

just a warning to all viewers, this documentary might make you angry and awestruck by the negligence and inconfidence by many of the parttakers and also the producers of this 3 part tv-show...who really benefits from this production is an oblivious question, the ultimate looser is the poor and hungry children in the end...

Unfortunately Renee Bach is not a savior, nor a crusader and much less a saint She got away with murders due to her funds, and resources, bullying as well and the faith and need of people She actually denied performing medical procedures, when there is actual footage, in which she disregards and disrespects medical trained professionals, because she thinks she's better.

-One of the "Serving his Children" advertisements has Renee Bach surrounded by children's photos and a celestial light above her, which only supports her Narcissistic personality. She had many years to manipulate through religion, to achieve her Ego Journey disguised in altruism.

-Renee's big mistaken was to appear on this documentary, she is exposed and clearly caught off guard with questions she can't answer or blatantly denies.

-Jackie Kramlich an actual nurse and volunteer is portrayed as contentious and a snitch, but she is actually the only one that sees all wrongs and the endangerment around -It's shameful, that self righteous individuals feel entitled to control and manipulate the lives of people who are less fortunate in many ways, and believe they are the poster child for goodness when they only damage.