It’s back on the road this Sunday. Jim Quattrocki and I return to Kitgum, Uganda to expand a documentary we started last year. “Ready to Forgive: An African Story of Grace” looks at the Acholi people of Northern Uganda. For twenty years, the Acholi faced war, rape, torture and abduction. Rebels known as the Lord’s Resistance Army forced tens of thousands into internally displaced person camp. An estimated 20,000 children were abducted. Despite all this, the Acholi want to forgive the people who torment them.
The host for our program is Immaculée Ilibagiza. In 1994 Immaculée survived the Rwandan genocide by hiding in a closet with six other women for 91 days. Her best selling book about forgivness, “Left to Tell” makes here an ideal narrator for our program.
Upon our return, Jim Parks and I will be re-editing the material into a one-hour program for air on NBC in December, 2007. Our deadline is November 22, so this will be a real tight turn-around. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is funding this program. They received the slot on NBC through the National Council of Churches .
We invite you to join us, November 4-14 as we post photos, video clips and stories about our production.
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