Much has been said and written about the survivors in Congo. Typically, it's survivors of the Africa's first world war in eastern Congo. But there are many other survivors to tell their stories. Here's a documentary film, 'Benda Bilili!', about survivors of the cruel, crippling, and deadly disease of polio.
Polio has left its mark throughout the world. It has long been eradicated in the developed world. However, it still makes a deadly appearance in Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Nigeria, and Congo.
Rotary International backed by the Gates Foundation and WHO is fighting daily battle.
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★ 'Benda Bilili!' (PG-13, 1:25, in French and Lingala) This documentary of years in the life of Staff Benda Bilili, an intergenerational band of polio survivors and street youth, offers intimate, and rare, access to the urban misery of Kinshasa, Congo, as well as this group's can-do optimism -which, in this lucky case, pays off with international success. The filmmakers Renaud Barret and Florent De la Tullaye have an eye for revelation and entertainment. (David DeWitt)
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