Remember the malnourished child from Nigeria whose heartbreaking picture flashed all over the internet, as a volunteer held a bottle to his mouth? The child was found starving in the streets of Nigeria, after his parents abandoned him and left him to die, suspecting him to be a ‘witch’ child.

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The volunteer who rescued him was Anja Ringgren Lovén, who works for a Danish volunteer organization called DINNødhjælp (‘your relief’). Malnourished and with worms in his stomach, he was on the verge of dying.

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After being treated for worms in his stomach, he was taken care of in the orphanage Anja runs with the help of her team. In 8 months, Hope (the name he was given) was a changed child. On the way to recovery, he gained weight and health.

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One year later, he is ready to go to school and Anja recreated the old picture to show the huge difference.

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Working tirelessly to rescue and rehabilitate abandoned children in Africa, she runs African Children's Aid Education and Development Foundation.

“I became a mother myself 20 months ago and I was thinking of my own son when I saw the boy. For me it was clear at that moment that I would fight with all my strength for him to survive,” Anja had said.

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Thank god for those selfless people who work tirelessly to help others. If everybody was even half as kind as them, this world be so much happier.