Fate now seems to be smiling on a two-year-old Nigerian boy who was abandoned to die by his family in Uyo,Akwa Ibom State, ostensibly for being a witch.
He was rescued last January 31 by Anja Ringgren Loven, a Danish woman who found him emaciated and riddled with worms.
He was scavenging for food.
Loven, founder African Children’s Aid Education and Development Foundation, renamed him Hope and took him to the hospital for treatment.
He was de-wormed and had daily blood transfusions to incorporate more red blood cells into his body.
And with that began his journey to an amazing recovery.
Once a picture of the then starving toddler hit the internet,it broke hearts around the world and provoked a massive donation of cash for his treatment.
Loven said Hope has hypospadias, a genital birth defect meaning the urethra emerges somewhere on the shaft or even the base of the penis, instead of at the tip.
He is due to have a surgery next week to correct the defect.
Loven has shared a series of photographs showing Hope’s miraculous recovery.
The Daily Mail of London quoted her as saying : ‘As you can see on the pictures, Hope is really enjoying his life now having 35 new brothers and sisters who ALL take such good care of him, play with him, study with him, and make sure he is safe and is getting a lot of love.’
‘Thousands of children are being accused of being witches and we’ve both seen torture of children, dead children and frightened children,’ she wrote on Facebook, accompanying images of her feeding the young boy and appealing for donations to help pay for his medical bills in January.
‘With all the money, we can, besides giving Hope the very best treatment, now also build a doctor clinic on the new land and save many more children out of torture!’
Ms Loven runs a children’s centre where the youngsters she saves live and receives medical care, food and schooling.
She and her husband, David Emmanuel Umem, began building their own orphanage in late January.
Source: NigerianEyes
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