What makes an ordinary person step up to help the children of strangers? In Uganda, poverty, illness, and conflict have
left many families devastated and children stranded. Gladys Kalibbala, a woman of great heart but little means, has saved hundreds of these children through scrappy persistence. For over three years, JESSICA YU followed Gladys’s cases, each a poignant tale with dramatic twists. The Academy Award- winning filmmaker tells uplifting stories from her nonfiction account, Garden of the Lost and Abandoned, and explains why, after 20 years of making films, she felt compelled to write her first book.

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