A battered child, outcast by his family on suspicion of being a witch, was on death’s door when an NGO found him alone on the streets of Nigeria. The child was so weak and sick, his rescuers feared he would die. Yet today, almost two years since Saviour’s rescue and rehabilitation, he is one of the happiest children the NGO, Land of Hope, has ever known. It was Dec. 12, 2019, when Land of Hope founders Anja Ringgren Lovén and her husband, David Emmanuel Umem, received a call for an urgent rescue. They were preparing for a Christmas party but dropped what they were doing to rush to the site, a 30-minute drive from their Children’s Center in Akwa Ibom State. “We did not know what to expect,” Anja, who has been rescuing children for nearly eight years, told The Epoch Times. “The person who called us had seen a …
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