One year on, this abandoned boy is healthy and is starting school

Hope, a toddler living in Nigeria, was abandoned by his family last year because his family thought he was a ‘witch’.

Anja Ringgren Loven, co-founder of African Children’s Aid Education and Development Foundation, heard about the boy, and set up a rescue mission last January.

He was seriously ill and underweight.

But now, Hope is attending school and appears happy and healthy.

Loven, who is from Denmark, wrote on Facebook:

On the 30 of January 2016 I went on a rescue mission with David Emmanuel Umem, Nsidibe Orok and our Nigerian team.

A rescue mission that went viral, and today it's exactly one year ago the world came to know a young little boy called Hope.

This week Hope will start school.

And he sure does look better:

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