Exactly one year ago, Hope was living on the streets of Nigeria, full of worms, on the brink of starvation and cast out from his community accused of being a “witch”.
This image of Danish philanthropist Anja Ringgren Lovén giving water to Hope was shared across the world.
Nigerian witch boy Hope before and after
Credit: Anja Ringgren Lovén
Hope was brought to the African Children’s Aid Education and Development Foundation (ACAEDF), which Lovén founded with her husband David.
Nigerian witch boy Hope before and after
Credit: Anja Ringgren Lovén
Now, new pictures shared by Lovén on her Facebook page reveal phenomenal transformation he has undergone.
Nigerian witch boy Hope before and after
Credit: Anja Ringgren Lovén
“On the 30 of January 2016 I went on the rescue mission with David Emmanuel Umem, Nsidibe Orok and our Nigerian team,” Lovén wrote on Facebook. “A rescue mission that went viral, and today it’s exactly 12 month ago the world came to know a young young boy called Hope.”
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This week Hope start school.
Nigerian witch boy Hope before and after
Credit: Anja Ringgren Lovén
Lovén threw in the towel everything she had in Denmark to put in the foundation for Nigeria’s so-called “witch children”.
She said she first saw the problems created by superstition in rural Nigeria when she traveled there alone a few years ago and met children “who were definitily tortured and beaten almost to death because these people accused becoming witches thus left alone on the trail.”
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