Pictures of a charity worker rescuing a two-year-old boy accused of witchcraft in Nigeria have gone viral, resulting in almost £700,000 in donations.
The emaciated boy, now named Hope, was left wandering the streets because his family thought he was a witch. He had lived rough for several months, suffering from worms, before he was discovered by Anja Ringgren Loven, the Danish founder of the African Children's Aid Education and Development Foundation, set up to help abandoned children accused of witchcraft.
"Thousands of children are being accused of being witches and we've both seen torture of children, dead children and frightened children," Loven wrote on Facebook, accompanied by images of her feeding the young boy and appealing for donations to help pay for his medical bills.
Two days after Loven asked for help with Hope's costly medical bills, she received $1m in donations from around the world, reports the Daily Mail.
"With all the money, we can, besides giving Hope the very best treatment, now also build a doctors' clinic on the new land and save many more children out of torture!" Loven said.
After being found, Hope was given medication to remove the worms from his stomach and daily blood transfusions to give him more red blood cells, before being taken to the charity's centre, says the Independent.
"Hope's condition is stable now. He's taking food for himself and he responds to the medicine he gets," Loven wrote. She said the "strong little boy" even plays with her own son now.
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