In 2016, a group of photos of young Africans being fed water caused an uproar on social networks.
The little boy in the photo is named Hope, and the white beauty in the photo is named Anja, and she and her husband meet Hope on a journey.
At that time, little Hope had only turned two years old, unarmed, skinny, and her life was in danger.
Little Hope's miserable appearance stung Anja, she carefully came to Hope, observed his state, through experience judgment, Anja saw that Little Hope's body continued to replenish water, she immediately took a bottle of mineral water and handed it to Little Hope.
Little Hope looked nervous, he was afraid of strange adults, and he didn't understand what was in front of him.
Anja immediately realized her mistake, and she smiled softly, calming Little Hope's nervousness.
Then, she poured out a little water in the palm of her hand and gently handed it to Little Hope, who tasted the taste of water and understood that the bottle contained water.
Anja raised the bottle again and handed it to Little Hope, this time Little Hope did not refuse, based on biological instincts, he pressed his mouth against the mouth of the bottle, sucking carefully and greedily.
This scene was filmed by Anja's husband and uploaded to the Internet, and countless netizens were shocked by this scene.
Netizens around the world have left their own feelings, and for a while, the situation of African children has become the focus of people's attention.
So, why are there so many "little hoppers" in Africa? What kind of moving story will be left between Anja and Little Hope? Will Little Hope's fate change?
People who are possessed by evil
In August 2013, a small life was born in a small mountain village in Nigeria, Africa.
This is a healthy baby boy, he croaked to the ground, began the journey of life, he came to the world with curiosity, and explored the world in ignorance.
After millions of years of evolution, the human species has evolved a complex set of social operating mechanisms.
To survive in this society, it takes more than a decade for human cubs to learn to adapt.
For such a long time, many species have experienced the alternation of life and death, but for humans, the wonderfulness of life has just been revealed.
Unfortunately, for many "Little Hopes", the wonderful journey has not yet begun, and they have fallen into the endless abyss in ignorance, and what makes people sigh is that it is their loved ones who push the "Little Hopes" into the abyss.
Little Hope's father did not go to school, and usually sold his physical strength to earn a small income and support a large family, which was not enough for their family to live a life of food and clothing, and often did not have enough to eat.
However, it was such a low-paying job that little Hope's father could not keep.
When Little Hope was more than two years old, his father was fired by his employer for a mistake at work, and jobs are already scarce in small African countries like Nigeria, especially in remote rural areas.
Little Hope's father lost his job, as if he were sentenced to death, and the family lost their financial resources, and although they often starved, they could at least survive.
Now they have to face the challenge of survival and struggle for their next meal.
Good luck does not always accompany, but calamity often follows, and for those in trouble, every speck of dust that falls in the sky is like a mountain pressing on the heart, making people overwhelmed.
Due to frequent hunger, the family is not in good health.
Little Hope's mother was injured and fell ill during a field work, which made the already difficult family even worse.
The village is not big, and the villagers know exactly which one has happened.
Gossip is human nature, and it is also human nature to be a teacher, and Little Hope's family has had accidents one after another, which has naturally become a hot spot in the village.
Whether resting in the field or chatting after a meal, villagers inevitably talk about Hope's family affairs, and as the village's "Internet celebrities", Hope's parents will become the focus of attention wherever they go.
The husband and wife are exhausted in the field of public opinion, they desperately need the elders to guide them, they want to know what caused this tragic fate.
After repeated discussions, the villagers all gave unanimous advice, and asked the couple to go to the wizard to see their fortunes.
The wizard is the elder and authority here, and surrounded by the villagers, the husband and wife knocked on the wizard's door.
The door was shabby and old, with the mottled of history, pushed the door open, the old wizard stood quietly in front of the window, his back blocked the sunlight outside the window, until everyone said what they meant, the old wizard slowly spoke.
Everything seemed to be written in advance, including the words of the old wizard, including the changes in the expressions of the husband and wife, including the reactions of the audience.
After the process here, everyone followed the old wizard to the next scene, which is Little Hope's home and final judgment, where the old wizard holds high the banner of God and pronounces the judgment that Little Hope is possessed by evil.
At this point, the process enters the final end, and the interest of the audience is also stimulated, and everyone is waiting for the end of the story.
This story can choose two very different endings, which can be a comedy story in which the Holy Light purifies evil, or a tragic ending in which the soul falls into the abyss.
And the choice of all this, the old wizard generously handed over to the husband and wife.
In the end, the couple did not bother God, because saving souls also requires money, and they are already penniless.
The old wizard shook his head, sighed and left, and the audience watched the scene and left satisfied.
In the room, the husband and wife put the final end to the scene, they pushed little Hope out of the house, and from this moment on, they were strangers.
Is this superstition?
Perhaps the ignorance of a lightless world has become a belief.
Maybe not, it's just that in a cruel world, weakness becomes a victim.
In this way, the ignorant little Hope began to learn to survive, in order to survive, several garbage piles in the village became Little Hope's feeding ground, where food was scarce, and he had to avoid some powerful predators, such as wild cats and wild dogs, often for days on end, he could not find a little food.
Not only that, as an "unknown person" possessed by evil, he was often driven away and scolded by the villagers.
When Anja saw him, he was dying.
A ray of hope in life
Anja is a post-90s native of Friedrichshafen, Denmark, and she had a very unhappy childhood with her father who was an unprofessional alcoholic.
Not only that, but the drunken father often punched and kicked their mother and daughter.
In the boundless darkness, her mother was a light that warmed her, but when she was fifteen, this light left her forever.
Fortunately, she still has books as a companion, she likes to swim in the ocean of knowledge, and reading for many years not only warms her lonely soul, but also enriches her knowledge.
By chance, she came into contact with knowledge related to African witch children, which shocked her greatly, she thought that her childhood was unfortunate enough, but she did not expect that in this world, there were children who were a thousand times more tragic than her.
After graduating from school, she found a good job, and according to the normal trajectory, she would work hard in her career and live a worry-free life.
But whenever she thought of the world of that witch boy, her heart was difficult to be at peace, and she decided to see it for herself.
She is a girl with a lot of action, and when she saves a sum of money, she walks without delay.
In 2013, she successfully set foot on African soil, where she saw firsthand how shamans perform exorcism rituals against these witch children.
Some wizards poured oil into the ears of the witch boy, who cried in severe pain but to no avail, and his parents pressed him firmly.
Some wizards will use a very corrosive potion to splash on the witch boy, called washing.
Here, Anja has seen too many human tragedies and experienced too many stories of ignorance and absurdity.
She tried to stop it, but could not do anything, the victim's parents became accomplices of the abuser, and no matter how hard she tried, it was impossible to change the outcome of the story.
At this moment, she collapsed, and just when she felt hopeless, a person appeared in her life and lit a beacon of hope for her.
This man's name is David, and he is an African man by heart.
David is a well-known local philanthropist who also wants to do his best to save the persecuted witch boy.
To this end, he set up a volunteer organization to save witch children out of his own pocket, and at David's kind invitation, Anja joined the organization.
Since then, she and David have traveled to every corner of Africa, looking for witch children abandoned by the world, bringing these persecuted children back to their organizations and caring for them.
It is a job that requires great love and selfless dedication, but also a job that requires patience and resilience, and Anja found meaning in life here, and she threw herself into this work without complaint.
Not only that, she also harvested her love, and after a year of getting along day and night, she and David had a similar temperament and finally came together.
Let hope illuminate life
In 2016, Anja and David drove to a small mountain village in Nigeria where they heard that a witch boy had appeared and planned to take him to an internment center.
As soon as she entered the village, Anja saw Hope, and she knew that this was what they were going to find the witch boy, but Hope's appearance was too conspicuous in the crowd.
Little Hope didn't know how long it had been since he had eaten, and the whole person was very thin, and the ribs on his chest were clearly visible.
His lower abdomen was high and bulging, which was clearly the result of flatulence from not eating for a long time.
In addition, his chapped lips were badly chapped and his body was covered in scaly wounds, and his condition was very bad, and Anja carefully came to Little Hope with mineral water and fed him water.
Seeing this scene, David subconsciously took a picture.
After that, the couple left with Little Hope, they wanted to wait for Little Hope to go for a check as soon as possible, and according to the communication with the villagers, Little Hope had been kicked out of the house for more than half a year.
After spending such a long time in such an environment, God knows what little Hope's physical condition will look like.
After the examination, Little Hope's condition was even worse than they expected, because Hope had been eating moldy and spoiled food for a long time, and often went hungry, which not only caused him severe stunting, but also became a hotbed of germs.
To make matters worse, little Hope also suffers from a congenital disease such as hypospadias, and his life is in danger and needs to be operated on as soon as possible.
However, because Anja and his wife have been helping witch children for many years, they have little savings left and cannot pay for this treatment.
The couple didn't want to give up, so they decided to post Hope's photo online with a description of the situation to raise money for the operation.
What the couple didn't expect was that this photo of Anja feeding water to Little Hope received extremely high attention as soon as it was released.
Netizens were shocked and generous, and the next day the local aid station received a million dollars in donations, and after the money problem was solved, Little Hope successfully underwent surgery.
After little Hope was discharged from the hospital, Anja personally bought him new clothes and named him.
"Hope" means "hope."
Since then, little Hope has lived in the orphanage owned by the Anjas and his wife, and their orphanage also has a nice name called "Land of Hope".
There are as many as 83 children living in the "Land of Hope", and these abandoned children are the sparks of life in the place of hope.
David and Anja's children also live here, he and these guys become friends, they are no different, to David and Anja, the children here are their children.
Perhaps because of her bad childhood, Anja attaches great importance to the childhood of these children, and she will always find ways to enrich the lives of these children.
Together with David, she built places for these children to play and play sports, and they even built a children's soccer field, often organizing soccer games.
After little Hope recovered, David and Anja crammed him into a soccer team and taught him to play, hoping that he would integrate into the family as soon as possible.
These children may have to go through many ups and downs in the future, but at least it is certain that they will have a happy and stable living environment.
This happy memory will also warm their whole lives and provide them with inexhaustible motivation when they encounter difficulties in the future.
Edit: Secretly fascinated
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