Anja Ringgren She is the founder of the NGO 'African Children's Aid Education and Development' that operates in Nigeria, whose main objective is to help those children who have been accused of witchcraft and whose lives are in serious danger.
A few days ago Anja was news when published on social networks the rescue of a two-year-old baby accused of witchcraft and who was spared a certain death. The news has run like gunpowder, especially for his country of origin Denmark where his organization has raised in a few days more than 25000 euros that will serve to cover the hospital they have in Nigeria.
Again, superstition and hunger priming with the weak
That hunger and wars in Africa are a true epidemic that is decimating the population, we are clear, but when we add hunger to misery and superstition, cases like this occur in which you want to stop the world and get off from him to never return.
The little one, who has been baptized as "hope", he wandered alone and naked in the streets, grabbing a plastic bottle watching as people passed by him without anyone standing except to laugh at him, without food or drink, he only had to wait for the inevitable. It looks like the script of a post-war movie, but unfortunately it is real, as real as the lives of thousands of these accused children, notice the serious crime of being bewitched. Do not, I'm not talking about the middle ages, nor about the Europe of the Inquisition or the Salem witch hunt, I speak of Nigeria, a third world country in this year 2016, I speak of twisted minds, of irrational fears that make a man believe that a two-year-old baby will bring evil to the village.
Repudiated and abandoned by their own family
When a child or a baby is accused of witchcraft, a fact that can be as simple as the fact that a baby cries excessively at night (and we complained about the Estivil method) is repudiated and expelled from the village even by his own family. Can there be anything worse for a child that his own family renounces from him?
But for the little one "hope"It is very possible that this has been a sharp turn in his life because thanks to the Anja Ringgren action, the work he has been doing on the ground with the rest of the members of his foundation, thanks to his informants they have made it possible for this child be saved when arriving in time to the village to rescue him, not without certain problems and the reluctance on the part of the inhabitants of the town. visit their page and see it under their responsibility, but I do not promise that the image they have of the human being will be the same again.
We know that they are preparing a documentary about children accused of witchcraft in the country. Hopefully it can be seen all over the world and that this problem is eradicated along with many others that abound in that continent.
