Remember the Outcast Toddler Drinking from a Water Bottle? You Should See Him Now.

If you saw that horrible photograph of a tiny, emaciated Nigerian boy drinking from an aid worker’s water bottle a few years ago, you likely haven’t forgotten it. His limbs looked like sticks and each of his ribs can easily be counted – and the story behind his abandonment was even more sad: his people believed him to be a witch and cast him out on his own to die, even though he was only a toddler.

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Heartbreaking.

He’d been surviving on scraps when Danish aid worker Anja Ringgren Loven found him and took him in with other children abandoned or tortured for the same reason. He was called Hope.

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Anja is involved with an organization called DINNodhjaelp, which works to change the beliefs surrounding witchcraft and exorcism in Nigeria while sheltering children who are affected, like Hope.