Bach told their stories on a blog that she started. She’d felt called to Africa to help the needy, and she believed that it was Jesus’ will for her to treat malnourished children. with money raised through her church in Bedford, Virginia. The facility began not as a registered health clinic but as the home of Renée Bach - who was not a doctor but a homeschooled missionary, and who had arrived in Uganda at the age of nineteen and started an N.G.O. Twalali was one of more than a hundred babies who died at Serving His Children between 20. I started digging into who Levy is and found some pretty surprising stuff. Instead, I found a nuanced piece by Ariel Levy, a Jewish writer who brought her faith into the picture to give a whole different read as to why a young Christian woman set up a health clinic, called Serving His Children, over there in the first place. So when I heard that the New Yorker had written about this story on the whole matter last month, I figured this would be another screamer of a piece ripping up folks who go to Africa for evangelistic reasons. Jinja is Uganda’s second-largest city, so we’re not talking about a hamlet here. The parents of these kids had other medical choices in Jinja, the city on Lake Victoria in which Bach’s clinic was set up. I thought the amount of venom directed against this woman was over the top in that she didn’t have to take these kids on at all. I wrote about Renée Bach’s situation here at GetReligion last August while everyone was ripping into her for being a white woman trying to save black African babies. Complicating the matter was how many of these children were hopelessly malnourished and gravely ill when they were brought to her in the first place. Many of you may remember a story that broke last summer about a disgraced evangelical missionary who faces a lawsuit in Uganda for practicing medicine at a quasi-clinic where numerous children died.
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