Durango Independent Film Festival 2009

Milton Ochieng is a medical student from Kenya and is studying at Vanderbilt University. He is burdened not just by his studies, but by the recent loss of his parents to AIDS. After their deaths, Milton and his brother Fred, also a Vanderbilt student, vow to build the medical clinic their father envisioned back in their village. After receiving a scholarship in the U.S., neighbors in Lwala sold their chickens and cows to raise the $900 for his plane ticket. They bid him farewell with one request: “Just don’t forget us.” But a year after their father’s death, Milton and Fred are struggling to open the clinic. They appeal to friends in America for help. What follows is an outpouring of support as thousands of strangers across the country rally around them.