Care worker who rescued Nigerian 'witch' boy recreates photo for his first week of school.
Precisely one year prior, Hope was living in the city of Nigeria, loaded
with worms, on the precarious edge of starvation and cast out from his
group blamed for being a "witch". This picture of Danish donor Anja
Ringgren Lovén offering water to Hope was shared the world over. Trust
was taken to the African Children's Aid Education and Development
Foundation (ACAEDF), which Lovén established with her significant other
David.
Presently, new pictures shared by Lovén on her Facebook page uncover the unprecedented change he has experienced. "On the 30 of January 2016 I went on a protect mission with David Emmanuel Umem, Nsidibe Orok and our Nigerian group," Lovén composed on Facebook. "A safeguard mission that became famous online, and today it's precisely 1 year prior the world came to know a youthful young man called Hope." Lovén surrendered all that she had in Denmark to set up the establishment for Nigeria's purported "witch kidsA Danish aid worker who rescued a young boy who had been ostracised by his community in Nigeria says he has just completed his first week at school.
Presently, new pictures shared by Lovén on her Facebook page uncover the unprecedented change he has experienced. "On the 30 of January 2016 I went on a protect mission with David Emmanuel Umem, Nsidibe Orok and our Nigerian group," Lovén composed on Facebook. "A safeguard mission that became famous online, and today it's precisely 1 year prior the world came to know a youthful young man called Hope." Lovén surrendered all that she had in Denmark to set up the establishment for Nigeria's purported "witch kidsA Danish aid worker who rescued a young boy who had been ostracised by his community in Nigeria says he has just completed his first week at school.
Anja Ringgren Loven marked the landmark in three-year-old Hope's life by recreating the image of her, encouraging him to drink from a bottle of water, which was shared around the world one year ago.
Ms Loven and her husband, David Emmanuel Umem, run an orphanage in south-east Nigeria for children who have been abandoned by their families as a result of superstitious beliefs, called the African Children’s Aid Education and Development Foundation (ACAEDF).
They took on and named then-two-year-old Hope on 30 January 2016, after he had been accused of being a witch. Hope was emaciated, riddled with worms and suffering hypospadias, “an inborn condition in which one has an incomplete
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