In 2013, a ** caused a huge response at the global forum. The main character in is a white woman named Angie who rescues a skinny little African boy.
The boy was only two years old, yet his physical condition was already worrying. In **, the heroine gently feeds water, and this moment warms the hearts of countless people.
Soon after, the woman named Angie adopted the child and named him "Hope", which means that he can grow up happily.
Why is a two-year-old child who should have grown up healthy and happy, but is defined as a "witch child" and forced to leave the arms of his parents and be displaced.
Luckily, some of them were rescued by white girls who could pick up food discarded by people at the garbage dumps, and unfortunately, many of them were killed by wild animals and diseases.
In a family full of god beliefs, there are five children, the youngest of whom is called Hope. When Hope was born, local shamans came to his home to pray and bless him, hoping that he would grow up healthy and happy.
However, some shamans gradually turned this religious process of blessing into a means of collecting money. They said to Hope's parents: "Hope carries an evil spirit in it, and it is only through God's baptism that he can live in good health."
If he is not baptized, he will become a witch boy, and when the time comes, he may take the life of everyone in your family. Hearing this, Hope's parents were so frightened that they asked the shaman to baptize Hope.
However, there is a fee for the baptism of a sorcerer. In their hometown, a baptism costs $100. This is a high cost for most African families.
The hopeful parents begged the wizard to give them some time to raise money, and the wizard agreed to their request, hoping that they would be able to scrape together $100 within a year.
Otherwise, they may not be able to save hope.
Fathers even ventured into dangerous mines for the sake of their children's baptism. Finally, when Hope was almost a year old, the family scraped together enough money to hold a baptism for him, hoping to change his fate.
However, the result of this baptism turned out"Hopefully"All hope for the future is lost. Baptism is pronounced as a witch boy in Africa, which is actually quite simple. When Hope's parents take him to the shaman, who, after collecting the money, orders the hope to kneel in front of a statue to make a confession.
Hope, who was only 1 year old at the time, didn't know anything, just cried incessantly. The process lasted all morning, and Hope was already exhausted from crying. Eventually, the wizard took out a bowl of water for Hope to drink, claiming that it was holy water to cleanse the marrow, but in fact it was just lime-mixed water.
If you can vomit after drinking this glass of water, it means that the demons in your body have been driven away, and hope will return to health. If you don't vomit and the demon is still not gone, we will proceed to perform a second exorcism for you at your expense.
In the anxious wait, the wizard read the words, and the minutes and seconds passed, but the expected vomiting did not appear. After the exorcism, the results were revealed, and unfortunately, Hope failed to do so.
This was unacceptable to the parents, who begged the sorcerer to save the child again, but the sorcerer simply calmly said, "The child can only be saved by performing a second exorcism, without delay." ”
However, the hopeful parents could not afford the cost of a second exorcism, and from the bottom of their hearts they may have accepted the fact that the child was a witch child. Eventually, Hope was sentenced to be a witch boy and became a victim of the witch boy.
In this place, witch children are seen as carriers of evil spirits, and those who come into contact with them may suffer misfortune. Incredibly, some parents were so convinced of the wizard's words that instead of choosing to take their own children, they abandoned them and left them to fend for themselves.
Parents who once made money for their children's exorcisms are now strangers who avoid them, fearing that hope will bring them bad luck. Despite the fact that they are faced with money, they are convinced that Hope is born to be a witch boy.
This shows that the words of the shamans are regarded locally as the supreme authority, and their minds have been deeply influenced by the power of faith, and they have chosen to be ** for the sake of ignorant beliefs.
The hope of being judged by fate is discovered by Angie, and life becomes helpless after that. He had no parental affection, no adult assistance, and even had to endure the scorn and avoidance of most believers in the area.
Hope is just a 1-year-old child who, on instinct, searches for food to fill his stomach near the garbage dump. Every day he faces the danger of wild beasts, but in order to survive, he has to stay by the garbage around the clock.
After more than 8 months of perseverance, it was not until the appearance of the kind-hearted Angie that the trajectory of his life changed. Angie is an Irish girl, and her tattoos may make people think that she is not kind at first glance, but in fact, she is using her actions to save those witch children who have been sentenced to death.
In 2013, Anji learned about poverty and backwardness in Africa on the Internet, and she hopes to learn about life there firsthand and use her meager strength to help others.
She signed up for an event to help Africa and volunteered with a Kenya relief organization. Led by the leader, they arrived at the village where Hope was located.
Angie saw a scrawny boy at a glance. Due to malnutrition, his belly was already large and countless flies were flying around him. He was covered in all sorts of trauma on his face and body, but he was still staggering and moving his legs.
It was the first time Angie saw hope, and emotions of sympathy and sadness filled her heart. Angie immediately got out of the car and came to the boy's side. She saved hope in the moment, even though the boy didn't know yet that she would be his mother.
Anji took out the mineral water she was carrying and handed it to Hope. When the boy saw the water in front of him, his eyes seemed to rejuvenate. He slowly approached Angie and tried to take the water from her hand, but his thin arm could no longer bear the weight of the mineral water.
In the end, Angie could only slowly feed Hope with a bottle cap.
Seeing the boy's hardship, Angie can't express her inner depression in words, and she decides to help him in her own way. She handed the boy a biscuit, hoping he would accept it.
However, the boy just looked at her suspiciously, apparently he didn't know what a cookie was. So, Angie decided to teach him how to taste cookies herself. At this moment, the shouts of the team leader interrupted Angie's feeding, and they must immediately go to the next rescue point.
At the urging of the team leader, Angie gave all her cookies to the boy. She looked at the boy's helpless eyes, and her heart was full of mixed emotions. How she wished she could take the boy away, but she knew it was impossible.
However, when she saw that her cookies were snatched by a nearby child, and the boy's emaciated body was swaying in the wind, she immediately stopped the bus that was about to move.
She quickly got out of the car, picked up the boy, and decided to do everything in her power to get him away. Angie's determination and courage made her decide to leave here with this child, no matter how difficult the road ahead was.
Although the team leader was still reprimanding her, Anji never forgot her original intention and insisted on saving the boy. She understood that if the boy continued to stay here, death might only be a matter of time.
Friends who were traveling with her also discouraged her from taking the boy away, because infectious diseases in Africa can be transmitted through the human body and she will be at great risk. But Angie insisted on her opinion, and even if the team leader threatened her, she would not give up on the boy, or even give up the chance to move on.
In the end, Angie returns to her lodgings with hope and gives up her steps for the boy to move forward, but she just wants the boy to live. She decided to adopt the boy and give him a stable home.
When the boy fell asleep peacefully in her arms, it was perhaps the most restful sleep he had had since he left the house, and the beginning of hope.
When Angie gently lowered him, hope miraculously awakened. He looked at the generous stranger in front of him, and there was no fear, no crying, only endless helplessness and longing.
Angie gently stroked the little boy with her warm palm, and immediately arranged for him to take a bath. In the water, Hope's limbs seemed to be comforted by the gentleness of the current, yet his frail body also showed a pervasive tiredness.
During the bath, Angie was surprised to find that the boy's body was covered with scars and traces of mosquito bites. She immediately contacted the doctor and underwent a full examination in the hope of doing so, but the results were not promising.
After a long period of starvation, his digestive system has been severely damaged, and various body functions are gradually declining. What's even more cruel is that his body has also been attacked by many viruses.
Even the doctors advised Angie to give up the child because it would take a lot of energy and money to treat him.
Angie looked at hope, and her heart was full of determination. She knew that if she didn't treat him at this moment, the child might leave this world immediately, which would be the regret of her life.
She doesn't want to spend the rest of her life in guilt and self-blame, she wants hope to grow happily, with the name of hope, with her love. Instead of heeding the dissuasion of her doctors and friends, she began to do her best to save the boy and named him Hope, hoping that he would grow up happily in the future.
With the help of Angie and the doctor, Hope underwent vaccination and partial exchange transfusion**. In the days that followed, Angie fed Hope with milk and gruel, and gradually, Hope's physical condition improved, and his body looked much better.
Anji's face is filled with the joy of new changes every day, this period of African life, she not only taught Hope to dress, eat, and speak, but also became a mother of Hope, allowing him to gradually come out of the shadow of life.
But there is one fear that always haunts hope, and that is the fear of darkness, a shadow that cannot be erased from his life. At first, I hoped that he needed Angie to sleep with him so that he could feel at ease.
Angie is lucky, but how many witch children in Africa can be cared for like her? Most of them have been abandoned by their parents and are in misfortune.
Anji's kindness has touched the hearts of countless people, and although she can't change the local situation, her help and sharing have warmed a group of children. However, shortly after she left, a ** caused an uproar on the Internet, and people began to denounce the bad habits in Africa.
This turmoil has brought the issue of witch children in Africa into the spotlight again, and has also allowed more people to understand the "past and present lives" of this special group. Angie may be just one person, but everything she does is driving progress in society, so let's focus on the fate of African witch children and fight for a better future for them.
There are many children like "Hope" on the African continent, who are regarded by the local people as the embodiment of demons, because they are believed to have sorcerers living in them, and the sorcerers judge them by a glass in their hands.
What's even more heart-wrenching is that local parents often have to pay high fees to protect their children from the doom of witch children, but this often discourages many families.
However, how absurd and unjust is this religious belief being used as a tool by some unscrupulous people to accumulate money? But why did the witching religion in Africa become like this?
The answer is simple: it all stems from war and poverty. After the end of World War II, Africa became synonymous with war and poverty, and many former European colonies sat in their own chairs after the disappearance of the empire, but this did not change the status quo of Africa, but only exacerbated social unrest and barrenness.
In the face of such a situation, we should not only condemn the actions of these unscrupulous people, but also think about how to help the African people get rid of poverty and war, so that they can live a peaceful and happy life.
We should support local education and economic development, and help them build a more robust social system so that everyone can receive fair treatment and opportunities.
Only in this way will Africa's future be brighter, and those children who are "hopeful" will truly receive the respect and care they deserve.
While regime change has brought new hope, it has often been accompanied by war and turmoil. Armies everywhere began protracted battles for power.
The impact of the war has been far-reaching, and the people of this once peaceful land have become devastated and unable to provide even basic food and clothing. People stuck below the poverty line are beginning to seek spiritual sustenance, hoping to change their destiny through faith.
It was at this time that missionaries from Europe and the Americas came to the land and began to spread their faith. However, these missionaries did not act out of mercy, their purpose was to carry out new colonial plunder.
Their beliefs are not aimed at universalizing all beings, but rather to oppress the African people in various forms. Of course, those in power in Africa sometimes use the power of religion to bind their people in order to control their minds and lead them to fight.
Despite the harsh environment, people in remote mountainous areas believe in the power of these beliefs. In Africa, for example, some people's belief in circumcision has been criticized online.
They believe that only circumcision can make girls grow into real adults, so they send girls to the operating table, even in a rudimentary and sterile environment, where they endure pain and even the threat of AIDS transmission and death.
These twisted beliefs have occurred all over Africa, such as whipping girls with wicker to choose concubines, and local shamans having to sleep with their brides on their first night to exorcise evil spirits.
These all represent the unique presence of tribal culture and wizard culture.
In the plains of Africa, distortions are everywhere and have their roots in poverty. The local residents who have no livelihood guarantee can only use this way to try to change the status quo, but they are confused by the wizard's **.
The people at the bottom could not afford the suffering caused by the "betrayal of the sorcerer", so they could only believe in superstition. But luckily, there is a child who has started a new life and has a future of his own after being adopted by a lovely woman.
He has found his life in Europe and is now a healthy child, and Angie has also arranged a school for him, so he can grow up happily every day. With the help of people from all over the world, more and more witch children have shelters and shelters, and their living conditions have been improved.
The custom of binding feet in the feudal dynasty was once a distorted aesthetic and belief, but this bad custom was abolished after the founding of New China. The Chinese people are getting higher and higher in education, and they have less and less trust in the gods, and the pursuit of science and truth has become an eternal faith.
In many parts of the world, there may also be distorted beliefs that we have not yet discovered, which have become part of the lives of local people.
Therefore, the strength of the country will bring prosperity to the people, and the prosperity of the people will bring happiness, and we are very fortunate to live on the land of China. Believing in science is the best way to resist distorted beliefs**.