When a passerby found a young boy lying on the street last year abandoned and emaciated, he assumed the boy was dead. However, the lone boy was still breathing. The passerby then posted photos on social media and a local NGO rushed to the site to help. Arriving in the nick of time, the NGO, Land of Hope, would later refer to the boy, who they named Victory, as “one of the worst child abuse cases we have ever had.” Yet one year on, Victory has recovered and he’s even attending school. Anja Ringgren Lovén, who established Land of Hope in 2012, has lived and worked in Nigeria for close to a decade. Inspired by her late mother’s passion for equality and human rights, Anja moved to Nigeria from Denmark and started the nonprofit in response to the widespread abuse and abandonment of children in Akwa Ibom State. Anja, her …
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