I was thrilled to receive an invitation and update from my friends Andrew Krakower, documentary filmmaker and Courtney Spence, founder of Students of the World with whom I traveled to Uganda late Summer 2003.

On Tuesday, November 13, 200 at the Houston Jewish Community they are hosting a preview of "exclusive clips" from "The Children's War" a feature length documentary film about the conflict in Northern Uganda.

If you happen to be in the Houston area, I encourage you to attend this event, and if not, I encourage you to support the film through donation, spreading the word and visiting the websites.

Yours,
Jeremy Goldberg

FROM THE CHILDREN'S WAR WEBSITE:
In 2003, members from the non-profit organization Students of the World traveled to Uganda to learn more about the HIV issues and grassroots initiatives in the country.

Filmmaker Andy Krakower accompanied the group with the intention of shooting a feature-length documentary film focusing on the country characterized as the birthplace of AIDS. Reported widely as having the direst of orphan conditions in the world, Uganda was being praised for claims of successfully implementing awareness programs that made Uganda the first country in Africa “to reverse its rate of infection.”

On Krakower’s first day in the capital city of Kampala, a local took him to Namuwongo Zone B—the slums. He and his companions were shocked at the appalling filth and squalor in which these people barely existed. They were told that most of these people had fled from the war “in the North” of the country. It was then that they learned of the children’s war, a 21-year-old war in Northern Uganda.