bploi wai dtaai: Leave Her to Die

Catalogue Number: TPPI00
Producer: Think Positive Productions Inc.
Subject: Canadian World Studies, Documentary, Family Studies/Home Economics, Global Issues, Global Studies, Guidance, Health, Health and Medicine, Social Sciences, Sociology
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary, Adult
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 2008
Running Time: 49:00
Closed Captions: Yes
A 2 year old baby girl lay alone on a bamboo mat in a government orphanage in Northern Thailand. She had been abandoned in the “AIDS room”. Her medical chart read: “bploi wai dtaai: Leave her to die”. In a country that ostracizes those living with HIV, one extraordinary woman, Avis Rideout, was determined to prove that through loving and caring for those rejected and abandoned due to HIV, it is the incredible power of love that can and is… saving lives.
Realscreen MIP – Top Pick
Best Short Documentary – Anchorage International Film Festival
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