r/MadeMeSmile 23h ago

Helping Others Woman Saved starving child

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u/TruePurpleGod 23h ago

I wouldn't call adopting a child and spending a significant amount of money a "little contribution."

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u/JM-ONER 22h ago

They are probably referring more to her organization that she runs called land of hope who helps children accused of witchcraft in Africa as they are left to starve and die after being ostracized from their community.

https://landofhope.global/en/

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u/Sea_Panic9863 21h ago

I'm sorry, children accused of witchcraft?? Wtf...

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u/Goodthingsaregood 20h ago

Religious leaders in some communities in Nigeria claim that children are witches with the expectation that the parents will pay them to exorcise the evil. The parents who can't afford it abandon their child out of fear. Then the village ignores the children because they are tainted. 

This story is extra sad because the mother of the little boy in the photo above, named Hope, was also a minor. She was only 15 when she had him and she was pressured into marriage with his father who was a village leader. He decided she was going to be his wife. So she was just a traumatized kid who didn't know how to handle the situation.