Akwa Ibom boy, Hope reunites with his mother seven years after he was branded a wiz@rd

Hope, an Identified Akwa Ibom boy,has reunited with his mother seven years after he was branded a wizard, stigmatized and left to starve.

It could be noted that on 30th of January 302016, Danish aid worker Anja Ringgren Lovén was photographed giving water to a severely emaciated 2-year-old boy, whom she rescued after he was branded a witch by his family and left to starve to death in Akwa Ibom. 

The boy had wandered the streets for several months when Anja got a phone call and immediately led a rescue team including her husband David Emmanuel Umem, to bring the child to the Children’s Education and Development Foundation (ACAEDF) aka “Land of Hope” 

Taking to her Facebook handle on Tuesday, 5th of September, 2023, Lovén revealed that Hope finally met his mother. 

According to the aid worker, Hope’s mother, then a minor, was impregnated by his father, an almost 50 year old Village Head at the time, who chose her as a ‘wife’.

She gave birth to Hope at the age of 15. [CONTINUE READING HERE]>>>>

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