The moving story of a child abandoned in the street… who grew into a proud young man, facing his future with serenity.
In January 2016, Anja Ringgren Lovén, a Danish aid worker, was passing through a village in Akwa Ibom, Nigeria, when she spotted him.
He was a two-year-old boy, naked, skeletal, and struggling to stand. His name was Hope.
For eight months, he had wandered alone, abandoned by his family who believed him to be a sorcerer, a cruel superstition that, even today, costs the lives of countless children in Africa.
Anja knelt down, offered him water in a bottle, wrapped him in a blanket and took him to the hospital.
This simple photo, of a white woman giving water to a hungry black child, has gone around the world and touched millions of hearts.
