Intrigued to see how HBO covers this because this story isn't that grey, she had no medical training, administered her google search earned medical training on at risk children, and that intervention killed them. Will be severely disappointed if it tries to instill any level of sympathy towards someone this psychopathically delusional because the only reason she's not in jail is because she's American and this happened in a different country.

If this woman would have done this to children in the states, she would be in prison.

The fact that she’s doing this documentary and not imprisoned for her actions… she contributed to the death of 105 children. I hope the funds from the series go to those she hurt due to her negligence

"Let he who has never sinned be the first to pick a stone...and throw it at Renee" 😆 That got me.

Doesn't matter what her intent was- if she caused a life to end by pure ignorance...still manslaughter.

This charity was a business. There are videos of former members of the charity speaking about how they profited from donations, pretended to help when they had no expertise or experience in medicine, construction & education and that many of the children were used as props to make videos to influence more ppl to donate. I am surprised she even agreed to do this and expose herself further.

Listen, there are millions of Americans, including kids that need help. Secondly the audacity to go treat people ESPECIALLY children when you have zero degree whatsoever. How is that even allowed or legal?

Do you want to help or do you want to feel good about yourself? Normally, when you want to help, you seek the proper ways to do it. But if you want to feel good about yourself, you will do anything to get that instant gratification.

“I feel like I’ve taken the hit for every white person in Uganda” yiiiikes that gives me all the answers to her guilt I need

What Renee did was abhorrent. There is no excuse. It was unethical, self-serving, and reckless. She is responsible for over 100 child deaths. It’s horrific. If she had done what she did in the US, then she would be behind bars. I truly cannot believe that instead of being arrested she is getting a docuseries. This is shameful and it is insulting to all the families she took advantage of and to the children endangered and killed.

“Do you think Renee is a murderer?” That isn’t a good question it’s an easy one. Yes she is, PERIOD!!! The intention is irrelevant what matters is the result.

The fact that HBO is interviewing her at all and giving her a platform to spew lies when it is well known she had no medical training or licensing for her facility, that is just plain wrong. She should be locked up!

A 19 year old cannot drink in the USA but can practice medicine in Uganda!?!?! If HBO was looking for a story to tell, then tell the stories of her victims and their familes and how she fled Uganda. Shame on HBO

As a Ugandan, I'm hearing about this for the first time. why doesn't such news get to the whole country. thank God for this trailer 🙏

She KILLED kids due her negligence. So WHY is she being treated like a victim?? Did she ever apologize to the families? Did she serve time? I hope this "documentary" bombs or that it becomes so popular, people will call for real justice to take place.

She has no medical experience. Doesn’t even use the donation money to hire doctors is intriguing.

This is disgusting. Clearly Renee's reputation matters more than the lives she took from hundreds of children. She's a serial killer who targeted a marginalized group just like Dahmer

SHE NEEDS TO BE IN JAIL. PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!!

The fact that that devil is interviewed from the comfort of her living room instead of behind bars tells you enough, and the fact that those 105 children’s and their families suffering and trauma is commodified as entertainment whilst that witch is elevated into a place of innocence and good will in the eyes of the public is disgusting and I hate it.

The gull! She should be interviewing from under the jail! Im livid that HBO even gave her this platform.

Ignorance combined with piety is the most deadly combination in history. Well meaning but uninformed and dogmatically thinking individuals cause exponentially more pain and death than malicious psychopaths.

HBO has no right to portray her as a person who wanted to help. It is outragous.

She. Had. No. Medical. Training. Who cares about her intentions? HBO are you serious with this??? Just imagine this had happened in the US, she’ll be in prison right now. So sad.

This was such a good documentary. I recommend everyone to watch it. What still perplexes me is that i dont understand how someone can go to another country and essentially provide medical care when SHE HAS NO TRAINING! she literally only probably had highschool level biology! Thats insane to me! So many qualified medical immigrants come to the US and Canada and literally cant even work as a doctor because the US/Canada do not accept their qualification! How can this happen in Uganda is beyond understanding! Even though she settled for a mere 9000 USD, I hope karma gets her.

There is only 1 question: was she licensed to do any of the medical interventions she performed resulting in death? If the answer is no, then we have our answer. What is appalling is she shows no remorse and is veiled under religion and righteousness. She deserves to be punished under a court of law and serve time. I read she was penalized a mere $8,000. There was NO JUSTICE.

HBO why are you doing this? Giving her a platform and portrait her as a victim? She should in jail! Shame on you!

Love all the quick to outrage judges, juries and executioners in these comments who haven't even seen the documentary. Having actually seen it myself, in my opinion this documentary was surprisingly fair and balanced in its coverage of all sides to the story. The most interesting and thoughtful personality to me was the attorney representing and seeking justice for the Ugandan mothers who had lost their children. The world could do with more people like her.

Pretty good program worth a watch. In a nutshell, child rehabilitation center that gives food and medicine to children closes and a new coffee shop is built!

How dare you treat children with no medical experience, resulting in their death. She’s an animal who needs to be locked up. The government of Uganda should’ve locked her up

I'm a former evangelical, and in evangelical Christianity there's this idea that God will call unqualified people to save (mostly Black) kids from poverty, starvation, and/or trafficking. If you say, "But I don't know how to ___," they'll respond, "Well, Moses had a speech impediment, and God still used him," or some other example from the Bible. The result is a lot of well-meaning white people unintentionally doing lots and lots and lots of harm.

A lot of lessons to be learned from this Documentary.

If she really cared about those children she should have learned how to be an actual doctor !!

I love how everyone just ignores the fact that 10-15% of kids in the local hospitals died as well.

she deserves to be in prison, not have a documentary painting her out as some white knight. disgusting.

There’s no way she agreed to this knowing the context

Renee did what most of us will never think of doing and that was helping those helpless malnourished children and instead of being appreciated she is being judged. But as the Bible says in Math 5:10 Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven. Renee my friend and sister the is with He says I will never leave you nor forsake you. Stand yo ground and continue helping those that He places in yo wake. We are thankful for the kind works you did for the parents of Eastern Uganda. Stay blessed my sister

How is she not in international jail?

she’s a serial killer and you’re giving her a platform?????

This is what evil truly looks like

"With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.” ― Steven Weinberg

I can only assume they plan on exposing her like they did the guy from BS HIGH. I hope that’s the plan because you can’t excuse or explain away her actions

She’s a mass murderer and not only got away with it but got her own documentary painting her out to be this misunderstood heroine are we shocked?

It's obvious many of the people commenting have only watched the trailer/first episode and are opining only based on that. I come from a country that has needed missionary help like Uganda, and it's fascinating how I already knew the cast of characters and predicted the end before the final episode; the dichotomy between the noble-hearted and idealistic white missionary kids (the vast majority of them), the toxic ones with a savior or superiority complex AND the local critics (the No White Savior group) who don't address the actual problem and only throw rocks and profit of it. Their ending (at the end of the doc) is soooo predictable to someone like me who has known this charade for decades; they crowd-raised a coffee shop with "resource books" which does nothing to address the lack of healthcare and doesn't bother to pick up the slack of Renee's organization and the good she did do. Armchair academic wannabes, who make valid points but do nothing about it. And the criticism that she is raising two Ugandan orphans in the US? At least she is raising two Ugandan orphans, which is WAY more than most critics ever care to do. Renee was at best reckless and that needs to be called out, learned from and prosecuted. This is old, folks. The malpractice on Africans by untrained missionaries is much older than Renee herself. And, not but, she was also doing work that many refused to do, including the self-righteous NWS warriors who'd much rather criticize from outside instead of getting in the mud and helping the sick in their own communities. They need to stop being convenient hypocrites just as much as the missionary community needs to learn from this, clean its act and do no harm.

She needs to be in jail, not in a documentary

This blows my mind that HBO made a documentary on this monster

Its sad how there is room to debate, if she did wrong. whereas there are 108 families that would never be the same.The few who got 'justice ' was a slap on the wrist as compesation and now, HBO out here profiting over those dead african children 💔 😢 when does it end??

This woman should be behind bars. HBO should not give fame to criminals.

Can’t wait until the “documentary” tells us the intention is all that really matters

It's called WHITE SAVIOR COMPLEX, don't water it down by given it a different title HBO

Now I'm in a precarious position being half and half. My dad is white my mother was Indigenous now there is me. Our world is filled with people who think that their good outweighs anything else and they are compelled to force that life into us. I know colonialism, my parents would fight about in throughout my life and it's caused a lot of resentment withing myself... we can't let bygones be when people like this woman are allowed to exist without being monitored or policed like the rest of the non-white world has to....

I think sometimes you just have to ask yourself 2 simple questions: 1. “Would I legally be allowed to do this in America without qualifications?" 2. “Are there rules/regulations/laws/governing bodies that would prevent me from doing this in America without qualifications?. Christianity was in Africa before it was in Europe. I have never understood the need to do mission work in Africa when the harvest is plenty but labourers are few here in the west. 52% of British people and 31% of American's don't go to church every Sunday, meanwhile 84% of Ugandans are Christians, and there are more christians in Africa than any other continent (631 million to be exact.). I do not understand the reasoning of leaving America - which has experienced a 15% drop in Christianity in the past 10 years (down to 63%) - to preach to the converted.

There's a podcast about this called The Missionary. It's a great listen in addition to this. There's definitely a conversation to be had about the value and intent behind missionary work, but what Renee did was pretty cut and dried medical malpractice.

For all those who are saying atleast she tried to help or tried to do something.. just imagine a situation where one of your own kids or if you don't have kids your loved ones has fallen unconscious in a public place and may need a CPR remember I said may need a CPR not necessary and no one is helping but someone comes up to help and renders a CPR without doing a proper check and performs it incorrectly leading to rupture of lungs and death.. now is the person a saviour or murderer

Platforming this negligent murderer is so irresponsible. Unreal.

Am stunned that she is not behind bars yet the actual heckkkk😮

This woman is a monster, no accountability and she willfully deceives. So scary

Charity work often goes from a mission to provide relief or assistance to those needing help, to a mission that seeks to financially enrich the lives of those providing it. Or is that sometimes the entire point?

Why are they trying to portray this like it's a debatable topic she literally operated on children without a medical license if this happened anywhere else with children of a different race she would be in prison by now

This will be an interesting watch. My uncle was a medical missionary during idi Amins day. He would see people being attacked by machetes in front of his clinic. He was trained though

I am very confused by all the comments about how she is portrayed as a victim. This is a documentary that appears to investigate her wrongdoing. Just because a perpetrator is interviewed doesn't mean she's portrayed as a victim. My God, people. Let's use our brain and not automatically listen to the twitter chatter. Wait for the documentary to actually air and then make your judgements.

**Vengeance is mine said the Most High** 🙏 Pure wickedness and evil, 😭😭😭😭 my heart go for the family's and innocent children's.

Ive seen comments saying that the rate of death for her organization was 11% vs the rate of 40% for that region. Folks, that comparison is illogical. A proper comparison would be between her organization and an organization with trained medical staff - because that was what the people of this region thought they were getting and should have received. Suggesting that people of the region should just be happy with the faulty dangerous help they got because without that "help" it would have been worse is unacceptable.

Trust me, people with a savior complex is coming all colors, even black.

She is a murderer and got away with killing all those kids through sheer narcissism. The fact that she refuses to accept that what she did killed those kids further proves her narcissism. Im sure her God will be super impressed with all the child killing when she eventually goes to meet him

How does extradition work in USA and Uganda? When is the trial, and when will she be held accountable? Also, how does see sleep at night?

I truly hope this isn’t a redemption story for Renee. What is this trailer?

She’s a murderer. If you did this in the US, you’d be in jail for life if not put to death. As a nurse, this makes me sick.

Sure, the whole religious aspect of it was delusional, but she went there to try and help. She helped waaay more than she hurt. So many that criticize her have never been in her shoes and live in their own selfish little worlds.

Religion poisons everything. - C. Hitchens

I can smell the covert narcissism from 5 miles away!

As a Ugandan, this woman needs to be extradited back here and dealt with accordingly.. The nerve smh

This documentary did a good job of showing both sides without bias, something those who would like to demonize her don't like at all. I'm very grateful that they didn't follow the outrage culture and actually looked at the facts and heard both sides. Too much of this "she shouldn't even be allowed a platform, shouldn't be allowed to even speak because we've already passed sentence." Typical of our culture to not even listen to people with whom you disagree. An excellent documentary.

Is she being paid for this documentary? If yes HBO should be ashamed for glorifying a killer

She has the same dead-soulless-stare as Elizabeth Holmes and Bryan Kohberger.

the fact that this trailer portrays Renee as a victim is beyond immoral. HBO really lost its footing after the merger.

Why not the millions of homeles people in your country?

She deadass said she EXPERIMENTED on children. That’s psychotic

Now why is HBO giving her a chance to speak..... she literally caused the death of those children

If they wanted to help African kids, they can help the African American kids here in the U.S.😅

lol at throwing a stone at Renee

That woman was out of her depth in many ways. You wouldn't do this in your own country so why do it abroad? She should have been extradited to Uganda and faced criminal medical negligence charges.

As a Black Christian, I’m very interested in this “being called by God” situation. Does God know that we will make mistakes when we do His will? Yes, but at the same time, it’s such a weird trend of white Christians always being “called” to help poor Africans. A lot of people build their identity on who they can help. Some of these people can’t even evangelise to their neighbour but feel okay going to another continent. Obviously, I’m aware that people can be called and then mess up like Saul.

Did this trailer need to go so epic with the music ? I’d go more with a somber dramatic tone

The movie is White Savior (Renee) vs White Savior (Kelsey) and in both cases, Ugandan's not only lose (funding, resources, etc), they are not given the weight/relevance they merit in the discussion

I havent heard of this until now

There’s genuine Doctors and Nurses and other Allied healthcare professionals that are well experienced and qualified to assist people in those medical camps, I know people that have sacrificed everything to serve my mother continent. One of the main reasons that causes death in children - they are brought to these professionals when it’s too late and they expect a white saviour mentality, of-course with pain of loss comes hatred to the white saviour. I am not saying that responsibility shouldn’t be taken as some of them are just students and lack experience however, medical camps do provide a lot of help to our communities and still save lives.

They come to my country pretending to do good they're are evil 😢😢

I think we all know why shes been able to get away it and its NOT that hard to figure out. IF these kids HAD BLONDE HAIR AND BLUE they would have given her the CHAIR!!!

The fact that the death toll is over a hundred... after the first death, you should ask yourself what went wrong. This says a lot about her "good" intentions.

Whoever made this documentary needs to be fired

Let me go into a white nursery and make mistakes no debate id be under the jail.

Once she began to hire actual medical professionals, why didn't she step aside and allow the professionals to do their jobs....Renee has mental health issues, and needs help. Although I commend Renee's early on efforts, yet she became twisted in her calling and is going to far....God bless her, those children, and I pray she gets the help she needs to continue to be a mentally healthy blessing to those babies🙏🙏

HBO: Are you serious? So, this woman does awful things, and you allow her to center herself as the victim???

Maybe help because you want to not because some imaginary being told you to. Use science and logic combined with compassion.

Ah yes. Another “Good Christian” doing evil in the name of God.

I’ve never heard of her before!

Once you get past the white guilt vs white savior vs white bashing part at the beginning its actually a good doc. Her heart was in the right place, but she really should have brought doctors and nurses in with that money. There's a reason degrees take so long to get. And if you haven't worked under a degreed medical professional for decades odds are you're not qualified.

Is this the sequel to Sound of Freedumb?

Moral of story: help the people in your community.

So 100 children under her care died while she was in Uganda for 10 years working to help these children? I wonder how many children she helped to survive in those 10 years? A lot of people complaining are the ones who has done less. How many people die under doctors care in the United States? There's around 200,000 Uganda children under 5 that die from malnutrition and illness every year. Do the math and research. Everyone is innocent till proven guilty.