♪ >> [singing in non-english language] ♪ >> high five! >> high five! >> high five! >> high five! foreign lananguage]

[indiscernible] >> [speaking foreign language] >> my passion is to see that these children are given another chance to leave -- live like normal children, because they are not a party to the crimes committed by their parents. they are totally innocent.

♪ ]> ♪ [singining [applause] name of jesus christ. [indiscernible] gallows.r ofof the >> [speaking foreign language] >> telling a story. ♪ ♪

[applause] >> hallelujah. >> hallelujah. >> i am here today to encourage you. i was taken to prison in 2000. i was barely 21 years old. ering theseded me of murd father of my daughter. i did not kill him. he was cut. he died. i was cut. the sky is big here. you can see those who can see. i was rushed t to the hospital n a crical c conditionon. narrowly, by the grace of god. [applause] up,t the devil would not give and d i was sentntenced to deatn 2002. i refused to allow the circumstances to d determine my

future, because i was not a criminal. i refused to live like a criminal. [applause] praise the lord. ♪ [indiscernible] my mom was able to take care of my daughter. once in a while, my parents used to bring her to see me. talked -- it is very important for a prisoner to talk to their children. whenen you see a friend who doesn't have anything to eat, your share, ok -- you share, ok? ok.

learn how to share with those who don't have. imprisoned, the government doesn't have any plan for the children left behind, so these children need food, shelter. they are searching for love. they end up on the streets. they start committing petty crimes. they graduate into committing bigger crimes. their parents are in prison. ♪ i wanted to, if i get the opportunity, to come out a different path. i took the opportunity.

the conditions were really harsh. i was studying law. i was sentenced to death. what do you want to do with that law degree? you are going to be hanged the next day. it was so foreign here, prisoner studying, women studying? hello. so, i had no class, no lectures, no computeter, no internet.t. so, hahad no graduation. it was amazing. massive, overwhelming,g, my goodness. professors who had come from the university of london where there in bigig numbers, had come to , the first of its kind ever.

♪ i didn't feel angngry anymore. and even if i am bitter or mad can g give me all the time i went to prison. i choose not to be bitter. i choose t to forgiveve ♪

the day i came out of prison, it was a friday morning and it felt like you don't belong in this world. this is another world that i came in. and so i needed someone, some people to help. if you don't have people to help in this world, you can get lost forever. it is easier for me to trust an ex-prisoner than someone who has never been to prison. when they come out --

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[laughter] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] ♪ world,ow the outside they would judge ex-prisoner. i've also gone through that. you hear people talking. acceptancece is nonot somethingg expected quickly. ♪ ♪

[laughter] >> [speaking foreign language] >> thank you. [speaking foreign language] [laughter] [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language]

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>> [speaking foreign language] ♪ >> thank y you.

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>> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] ♪ >> [children reciting in foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [indiscernible]

>> they are people with kindhearted, poor as they are. they have accepted to take in these homeless children, in their home. are [indiscernible] >> [speaking foreign language] >> she is one of the guardians who have tasked to take care of these children. there are three of them. these childrdren, they a are tol orphans with noo parents..

[speaking f foreign l language] >> [speaking foreign language] > [speaking foreign language] >> this is all that she can afford. we really need to support her. we need to give her bedding. when you see the blankets - --'m

ashamed. am. wewe should do something quiuic. [speaking foreign language] [sighs]

[coughs] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] baby]g and screaming >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> sorry. sorry. [crying continues] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language]

>> [speaking foreign language] >> you can't help [indiscernible] it is rampant in uganda. we don't want to o lose any of themem. we want all l of them toto grow.

the resources are not t enough o sustain the children. donatioions, but donations are not reliable. the poultry and the pork, as meat, isis highly in demand d h. such get funding fofor products, we will be able to sustain ourselves and not panic all the time or all the time we will have to do something allll the timime. the children would have to go to school all the time. they havave to feed -- there isa source where we get some revenue from. [children singingng]

> when i finally get the plae to build a home for the children and i see them become somebody, useful in the society, fending for themselves, it will give me satisfaction. i wawa people toto find strength from my life, the life i've lived, the life i am living. beant my life to [indiscecernible] everyonone. that everyone needs a second chance in life.

09/15/20 09/15/20 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from nenew york, this is democracy y now! >> at the end d the day, now we are forced to live i in a state where the e united statetes citn will have to choose between putting food on their kids play for voting. amy: a federal appeals court has blocked hundreds of thousands of floridians with fees and fines from past felony convictions from registering to vote in a move that could determine this year's presidential race. we will look at the atta o