Remember This Starving Nigerian Boy? It's Been 2 Years Since The Photo And He Looks Healthy

Remember This Starving Nigerian Boy? It's Been 2 Years Since The Photo And He Looks Healthy

Early this year, picures of a charity worker rescuing a 2-year-old boy in Nigeria went vial. The boy, now named Hope, was left wandering the streets because his family thought he was witch.

By the time the charity worker, Anja Ringgren Loven--the Danish founder of the African Children’s Aid Education and Development Foundation-- found him, he had spent eight months fending for himself and living off scraps.

After finding the little guy she would later refer to as ‘her son’, Loven gave him something to drink and took him to the hospital. She also asked for help with Hope’s costly medical bills. Thankfully, she received $1M in donations from around the world.With that money, Hope was given medication to remove the worms from his stomach and daily blood transfusions to give him more red blood cells. Shortly after he began taking food for himself and responding to the medicine he was given. 

Months have passed and Hope is now unrecognisable. Not only has he gained enough weight to be considered ‘healthy’ but he’s been seen smiling and playing with other children.Loven posted some pictures of her ‘son’ to Facebook and wrote: ‘As you can see on the pictures, Hope is really enjoying his life now having 35 new brothers and sisters who ALL take such good care of him, play with him, study with him, and make sure he is safe and is getting a lot of love.’

She also explained that the little guy was diagnosed with hypospadias, a genital birth defect that causes the urethra to emerge somewhere on the shaft of the male’s reproductive system, instead of a tht tip. 'The doctors found this inborn condition on Hope, so next week he will have surgery,' she wrote.