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One With Hope, The (2024)

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What is wrong with the child here?

What is wrong?

- The child?

- Yes.

- It's hungry.

- Can we give the child some food?

No food, no water.

The picture of rescuing Hope

changed my life.

It was like a blow in your face.

The whole world suddenly

put their eyes on our work.

That is something

we have been fighting for for years:

look at Nigeria, at the children

being accused of witchcraft.

I felt at one point that...

let me just go back to Denmark,

live a normal life

and just...

forget about everything.

I wanted to just

hide myself actually.

My name is Anja Ringgren Lovn,

I am 44 years old.

I like to call myself

a humanitarian or a social worker.

I grew up in the North of Denmark.

I lived with my mom, my twin sister

and our senior sister.

My dad was an alcoholic

so that's why my mom left him.

I was the girl who was trying

to rescue the world

and it started when I was very young,

trying to rescue my dad.

But how can a child help an old man

who chose to drink like that?

When my mom was making dinner

and my twin sister and I

would not eat all the food,

she would tell us: "If you don't

finish eating your food,

you should think of all the children

in Africa starving."

My dream from when I was only six,

seven years old

was to go and help

children in Africa.

You know, David Jr.,

you always say you want to be

a football player,

but I know you like

dancing and music.

Maybe you could be

a musician or a dancer?

My mom died when she was only 53

and I started feeling so much anger.

After she died, you know,

I struggled to find my own identity.

I struggled with anxiety,

weight loss.

I was in a hospital for three months.

I was just weighing 45 kilos.

I decided to sell everything

I had in Denmark

to raise money.

That's why I became homeless.

So I could help children in Africa.

Every Minister of Foreign Affairs

in the whole world will write:

"Don't go to Nigeria,

it's too dangerous."

Because this is a very poor country

with extreme poverty

and people will do anything

to survive.

But you need to face

your fears in life

and that is something

I have always done. Facing my fears.

Because if you don't,

how can you live your life?

- Are you ready?

- Yes!

- Are you ready?!

- Yes!

Come on!

People here are so friendly,

Nigerians are friendly.

They are peaceful people.

They just suffer from extreme poverty

due to extreme corruption.

It is a pleasure to have

these visitors with us here.

I'd like to invite Anja Lovn

to come up

and greet the Church with Martyna.

I came from Poland.

This is in Europe. Yeah.

I travel all around the world

to cover stories for television

about incredible and inspiring women

and now, a very important woman

for me is Anja.

I came here to show her work.

I am from a very far country,

Denmark, in the north of Europe,

but my home is actually Nigeria.

- That's right.

- Because...

my son, who is sitting there,

is Nigerian.

His father is Nigerian,

so I am Nigerian.

That's right!

And I am the founder of Land of Hope.

Our aim is to do advocacy

in the local communities,

try to advocate

that children are not witches.

Many members of Solid Rock

have helped us rescue these children.

I'm so thankful

to you and the Church.

Many people bring

every situation under witchcraft.

Many people think that if your...

pepper plant or a mango plant

do not yield,

it is because witchcraft is involved.

Maybe your plantain is not yielding

because witchcraft is involved.

Witchcraft is present

in every aspect of life.

It would be difficult

to do that

with the members of my Church,

but it could be easy

if a person is not enlightened.

They have many ways of manipulation.

This preacher had previously

denounced this child

as being a witch.

Children are particularly targeted.

People believe that once possessed,

they can cast spells

and contaminate others

and once accused,

a child is forever

stigmatized and feared.

In 2008 I watched a documentary

called "Saving Africa's witch children"

and it shocked me,

because children

accused of witchcraft

was something

that I have never heard about.

There's around 10 thousand children

accused every year in Nigeria,

so nothing could've stopped me

from coming here.

So the first, let's say meeting I had

with the continent, with Africa,

was what we call

"The warm heart of Africa,"

it is Malawi.

In my mind I had Nigeria,

but I wanted to gain some experience

before traveling

to such a dangerous country.

I was an observer, voluntarily.

My work was to live

with a poor family in Malawi.

And one thing

I'll never forget in Malawi...

All through my childhood, growing up

I have watched so many documentaries

about African culture.

Everything I could

watch or read, I did.

I thought I knew everything

and what poverty meant

but what I didn't understand

was what it means to be hungry.

What is hunger.

When I came back from Malawi,

I was like,

"I want to establish my own NGO."

I want to focus

on witchcraft accusations in Nigeria.

It's already dry, some of it is dry.

Let's take it inside.

This is still a little wet,

this is dry.

Okay, this is also dry.

Let's go and put it in the room, okay?

Can you see which one is this?

Prince? Okay.

So we'll put this in Prince's room.

This is Sunday's? Okay.

Oh girls, you're watching TV?

You know what?

You should be outside, playing!

Victoria...

Are you sick?

Did you see the nurse?

You've been taking the drugs?

You're burning hot.

Ernest!

Tell me something about Anja.

She cannot hear it right now.

Sometimes she likes...

Her hair before was black,

but now, her hair is white.

She likes dancing

and every morning

she likes to drink coffee.

This is my lifesaver.

- For me half.

- Half? Okay.

Oh, you're like my sister.

Black coffee only.

So now one, two, three, four... ten.

Mommy Anja, she helps children.

She does a lot of good things.

She's the one that helped me.

Oh, Deborah. What?

My shoe...

Oh, your shoe?

What do you want me to do?

- I want new ones.

- You want new ones?

Yes, because you fixed these

so many times.

Smile, you're getting new shoes.

She's unique.

For somebody to come all the way...

from a society

that is now fully developed,

to come down to a place

where life is totally different

and trying to bring...

hope and a totally

different perspective,

trying to make a change.

I think she's very strong.

She's an angel.

- She's an angel?

- Yeah.

This girl is fantastic.

When she came to Nigeria

I volunteered in a children's centre.

She didn't even care to look at me.

She was... a little hostile.

When I met David for the first time,

I was so annoyed with him.

We were playing football.

Then suddenly he just walks in

and all of the children

stopped playing

and ran to him: "Uncle David!",

and jumped on him.

He would start talking with them.

I was just like: "Who are you?"

She was like:

"I've been here for a week

and this guy is just coming

and they love him, why is it like this?"

This is because I've been with them

when they were kids

and they were almost six,

seven years with me.

Imagine a young law student

who had charisma.

He was 21 and I was 32

and I came to rescue children,

no time for romance,

like "No, I can't do this."

One day, someone was trying

to send a child away from there

and I was angry with that person

and I raised my voice.

I was very, very angry,

defending that child.

Anja told me to calm down.

She looked at me for the second time

and the third time.

After that day she came up to me

and said: "Hello,"

and I said: "How are you?"

We started talking.

It just happened like that.

The second time I came to Nigeria,

it was a month after my first trip,

and I came back

and David and I actually decided

to get pregnant.

And after a month I was pregnant.

We just looked at each other

and I was pregnant.

David and I established

our children's centre

close to the university

where he studied law.

So in the first years,

we rescued around 30 children.

When we started, we slept on a mat

in an uncompleted building,

just waiting for a rescue mission.

We rented some buildings

and that place was attacked

by local gunmen.

They came during the night with g*ns

pointed at the staff and children,

they robbed all our properties

and destroyed so many things.

Children were waking up screaming,

running and hiding in the bushes.

That night some of these gunmen

r*ped one of our girls.

It was a horrible attack.

And the reason

why they could attack us

was that this place

did not have a high fence

and we didn't have security

like we have today.

That was the motivation for me

to travel to Denmark

and just do a lot of work

for fundraising,

so we could build Land of Hope.

David was here, making sure

that the place was being built

and together we have created

Land of Hope.

This is where all the boys live.

We call it the "boys hostel"

and in the end here is the "girls hostel"

where all the girls are staying.

And where is your place?

My place is straight forward here

and it's in the same building

as the boys' and the girls' hostel.

When we built this place

our idea was to build a room

with our own kitchen

and our own TV room,

so we could have some privacy.

- And?

- We ended up just having a room.

Oh, so this is your private space?

This is my private space.

Is this room different

from the other ones?

No, this room is actually the same

as the children's rooms,

with a private bath and toilet.

When I'm here, I'm not indoors much.

I'm more outdoors and I don't like

to be just in my room.

Who's here?

Hello?

How are you?

Of course, mama's room

is always the best.

Anja, what's that?

It's just been the new year's,

so I had to wear something special

for the new year.

I have to see what it looks like on you.

Like this,

and we danced all night long.

- Very elegant.

- Let me show you this one.

This is from a local tailor here,

in Africa.

This is amazing.

One of my favourite dresses.

Very colourful.

See? They sewed it so well here.

You need to have your breasts up

and your booty in the back.

So you like fashion?

Because it's so hot here,

I can wear one dress

and after one hour it gets too hot

and I'd wear another dress.

Anja, you know what I think?

That here, inside of these walls,

all of you can feel very safe,

but outside

the world isn't like this.

Yes, inside Land of Hope

it's pure happiness and love.

Outside of these walls,

that's where the world

is going crazy.

One day David said:

"I got a phone call this morning.

There's a two-year-old in a village."

But I don't even know if it's true,

like can they abandon a two-year-old

and can this child even survive?

Then I looked at David and I said:

"Let's go and check it out."

- No one is feeding the child?

- Yeah, no mother, no father.

Oh, I'm sorry.

And I bent down to give Hope

some water and biscuits.

The smell...

it was like the smell of death.

Like it was...

I can't explain this smell.

While we were walking

with him to the bus,

the man said:

"Where are you taking him?"

So I had to walk faster

and then suddenly,

the bus that we came with

was surrounded with people.

So David came and interfered:

"Have you seen the health

of this child?

Have you seen he needs a hospital?"

He just slammed the door

and said: "Let's move."

When she held the boy, she told me:

"David.

This boy is gonna die.

And before he dies,

he needs to have a name."

So we named him Hope,

took him to a hospital

and the doctor said that he had

a very small chance of survival.

The breath of Hope,

we were counting it in seconds.

He was truly someone

who was about to die.

David and I brought David Jr.,

our son, to the hospital

and put him in a bed with Hope,

so they could sit and play together.

That was the first time

we saw Hope smiling and even laughing.

That's why I call his survival

a miracle.

But when I think of Hope, I laugh.

Because of his intelligence,

because he's someone

with such a funny character.

He's so funny.

I also have a little concern

that he will never be able to talk.

I think that he really wants

to express himself

and I hope that this day will come.

Land of Hope is

a very big children's centre.

It's more than three acres

and David and I,

when we bought the land,

we had this vision of not only

making it a children's center,

but also to build

an educational centre

where children could learn

different traits.

Art class, physics,

computer training.

This is where we sing

and have lots of fun.

One, two, three...

go!

I love you!

This is why I'm always so emotional.

I just think about

how we rescued them

and watching them stand

with so much courage

and just singing,

believing in themselves.

Now they're young women

empowering each other.

That's just so amazing.

Wow, I have goosebumps, you know?

I love this, yeah.

If you look at Denmark,

even Poland and Europe

and go back to the 1700s,

we were all accusing,

especially women.

In Denmark, we burnt

more than 2000 women alive,

accusing them of being witches.

So why are we not burning women

alive in Denmark now?

Because we started

sending children to school.

It gives you the therapy.

Therapy is what heals you.

So art is just like self-expression.

It could be creativity,

it could be your imagination.

What are you thinking?

What kind of concepts do you have?

One Nigerian child had

one dollar per year

to pay the school fees.

So it was just a joke

to see how they were funding

education for children.

And that's also the problem

about superstition and about poverty.

If children are not

being sent to school,

there won't be any development

and it's heartbreaking to see

how much talent is being wasted

in this country.

Hope has

such a strong meaning for me.

H-O-P-E, because?

Help One Person Every day.

So it couldn't have been

any other name

than Land of Hope.

Hi! What do we have here?

Every time they are playing football,

our nurse is here.

They play as if it was a matter

of life and death.

You'll be fine, David.

Can you recognize every kid here

and call them by their names?

All of the children.

I don't even need to see them

to recognize who they are.

I know them by their voices.

You even have your own water?

Yes, we have our own

water production company.

David, my husband, always had

this dream of having that.

He wanted to produce

water that's cheaper

and more accessible to everyone.

Land of Hope is like Noah's Arc.

We have chickens, we have fish

and a big area

where we grow vegetables

and different kinds of leaves

that we use in local dishes.

So it almost became

what we have dreamt about,

because by building all of this,

you can actually survive.

This is David's family's home village.

Everyone in the community

respects him very much,

meaning we are safe here.

When we built Land of Hope,

we hired 150 local workers.

We gave jobs to all of these people,

so Land of Hope is the pride

of this village.

When I'm in Denmark, I miss Nigeria

and when I'm in Nigeria,

I miss Denmark.

So I feel like I have a foot

in each country

and every day I feel divided

between these two countries.

Denmark is where I do

administrative work,

interviews, people also book me

for conferences.

That's very important for us.

To have a platform for me to talk

about our work and get donations.

Because we need money

to rescue children

and to give them a future.

I am the one who has to go back

to Denmark and raise funds,

so it's a huge responsibility

on my shoulders.

It made me really proud of her

that she has such a big heart

for Nigeria and Nigerian people.

I haven't had any holidays

in three years.

I didn't have time for it,

so I'm really looking forward to it.

- So much.

- Me too.

I work for Anja at Land of Hope.

I am the vice president

and I handle

all of our communication,

marketing and social media.

I feel like I have to

take care of her

because my mom told me to.

But I think it was also because

she saw that we were different.

Anja was more like:

"Here's a pool. Let's jump in."

And I was more like:

"But how deep is it?

Let's figure that out

before we jump in."

Anja would just jump in.

Even though I know

she was raised here,

and we're Danish

and we live in Denmark,

I feel that when she goes to Nigeria,

she's being herself the most.

Sometimes if Anja and I

have an argument,

because we're twins,

we work together,

so we argue about loads of stuff.

If I'm mad at her and I go out,

people say to me:

"I love your sister."

I'm like:

"Oh no, she's not so great."

She's not so perfect.

From the outside it looked

as if we had a lot of success,

but behind the scenes,

we were really struggling.

But we kept the focus on the project

and on the children.

The children accused of witchcraft,

when they see you,

they don't want to come up to you.

They feel like every adult

is a danger.

They don't believe you.

They've faced a lot of threats

from adults

who came to beat them,

sometimes even k*ll them.

So they see every adult as a threat.

So I always have to convince them

that I'm trying to do something good.

Here, in Land of Hope

we have 91 children

and only 21 of them are girls.

The rest are boys.

Why are boys accused

of being witches more than girls?

Because boys tend to have

a more dominant character,

like they're rough playing.

And they're not needed.

Boys are not needed in the household.

I remember in 2019,

it was around Christmas,

it was December. You're always

in this special mood then.

There was an emergency call.

David came to me and said:

"I don't know if you want

to see this child

but there is an information

that he's in a very poor condition."

I was like: "Let's go!"

When we came and we saw the child,

he couldn't even walk.

It was a boy.

He was in so much pain.

That is Saviour.

He was r*ped multiple times

and he's also diagnosed with HIV.

He was hiding in big pipes

along a building construction site.

When we took him out of the pipes

he was holding up his pants

and the pain he was in was terrible.

Did they k*lled your sister?

And he would have been k*lled

one or two days after

if we didn't come.

He wouldn't be alive.

We took Ernest with us,

one of our oldest children.

We sometimes take some

of our children on rescue missions.

They love to come and help us

and that's so inspiring for me.

The way Ernest took that child

gently into the car,

sat with him in the back,

gave him something to drink,

gave him biscuits,

and then David was playing

a Christmas song.

We were so emotional.

So on the way back,

he put on this gospel Christmas song

and I turned around and looked

at Ernest sitting with Saviour

and I started crying,

because it was just so emotional.

But it was Christmas

and we saved a life,

so that might have been

the best Christmas ever, actually.

Do you remember the moment

when Hope was here for the first time?

Hope was very little and tiny

when he was rescued.

When they brought him

to Land of Hope,

it was very sad

because of the state he was in.

He was literally dying,

so it was very sad.

And now,

what do you think about Hope?

Hope is the most... I don't know.

I think he's the happiest

little kid in the world.

Because...

His transformation is amazing.

He's healthy now,

he's in a perfectly safe place,

so yeah, Hope is doing good now.

He's very smart.

What we know about Hope

is what we know from the father.

He's a sorcerer,

he's a witchcraft doctor.

And he's someone with big influence.

The first thing he asked me was:

"How much do I owe you?"

I told him:

"You don't owe me anything,

I don't want any money.

We are here because every child

deserves to know their identity."

He was saying that

it's the mother's fault.

He was telling us

one side of the story.

We have been looking for Hope's mom

since we found him.

It is very important for Hope

to meet his mother.

To see and meet her.

And it's important for her.

She needs to realise

that children are not witches.

What is your opinion, David,

about this meeting? With the mom.

I don't know what to expect.

I have to see her first.

She told me she was there,

waiting for us in that place.

I just called her again,

a minute ago,

and the phone was switched off.

As far as I know,

for all of you in Land of Hope,

it's important that kids would have

a relationship with their parents.

When we go on home visits,

it is when we are actually

doing advocacy.

We are there to educate.

Not just the family,

but the whole community.

So this was the guy

who contacted David

to inform us about a child

that was abandoned,

of only two years old. He is the one.

For almost 10 years now we have been

very active in the local villages.

We actually have many ambassadors.

They know who we are

and they'd call us.

They are actually our eyes and ears.

- When was the last time you saw her?

- Yesterday morning.

Right now, they're saying

that she left the village,

but we're trying to find out

where we can find her.

Even though the sun is shining,

there are kids everywhere,

suddenly the situation

can change completely

and turn into something dangerous.

A month ago,

when we were in one village,

we rescued a child.

Two of his friends were butchered.

Butchered means

that they were chopping off heads,

arms, that's how they

butcher children.

They just k*ll them

with an axe or a machete.

We visit this village's head

to let him understand

why we're there,

so we are working with the community.

Is there many children

accused of being witches here?

No, yes, there is.

Why are they branding children

as witches?

They're behaving weird and before,

they were dying a lot.

But it doesn't happen

since I am here.

How do you do it?

We have a special mixture.

Kids vomit after drinking it

and then they are healed.

How much are the parents

paying for the drugs?

- One million.

- No one here has one million naira.

Isn't it too expensive?

If the parents don't have

one million naira,

they give me some land

of the same value.

So what if the parents

don't have any land,

they don't have any money?

Will they abandon the child

or what happens?

There's an option

of serving me.

Do you have any children

that are your servants now

because the parents

weren't able to pay?

Go and bring the child.

What are you doing now, here?

Do you help the chief?

I do whatever he wants.

Bring him whatever he needs.

Okay, but do you get money for it?

I only get to eat for free.

My money goes to him.

This is what we call sl*very.

When you work hard for 15 years

and you only get food for that.

It is very easy to manipulate people

who aren't educated.

They tend to believe

everything that they are told,

especially from a pastor,

because religion is a very big part

of Nigerian life.

The pastors are taking advantage

of the ignorance of the people

and they would tell them

that children are witches

and they believe it.

Promoting witchcraft

you have a really easy way

to rob people.

Many pastors never accepted me

to their Christian organisations

here, in this city.

When I have been preaching

that witchcraft has had nothing to do

with God for years.

Our own statistics

show that around 10 children

disappear in a week

from a village.

You should understand that accusing

a child of being a witch

is actually related to extreme poverty.

The families can't feed

all of the children they have.

So if there's an opportunity

to send children out,

accusing them of being witches,

it's less mouths to feed.

So it's also a way of surviving.

You know. So...

It's not easy

to come up with a number,

but it's many children.

Even one would be enough.

One child being k*lled is enough.

The child knows,

by growing up in this society,

that: "If I'm accused,

there's no way that I would survive."

So the children try and escape.

Children on the streets

are prone to all of those things.

Prone to trafficking,

they are prone to harvesting

of the organs,

they are prone to different kinds

of abuse. I must say,

any female child that sleeps

on the street for one night

is r*ped.

I ran away,

so I started begging on the street.

They accused me of k*lling my father.

They used to beat me every morning.

They didn't give me food.

My mother burnt me with an iron.

What do you feel

when you think about those people?

I think that we should forget about

everything that happened in the past

and move on.

All children here

have experienced awful things.

Cuts on their heads,

knife wounds, they are there.

Every child has something

they will carry for the future.

Sometimes they will keep a child

locked in chains.

Then the child is in a room

without anything to eat or to drink

until they admit

that they're witches.

You're also a witch?

Yes.

My name is Benjamin.

My parents accused me

of being a witch.

What do you think

about this situation right now?

What I think is that

when I finish my school,

I'm going to teach people

in the village that nobody's a witch.

The issues started in my family,

because I was going to school.

So my extended family accused

my father of being a witch.

That it wasn't normal that he had

so much interest in education.

That there has to be something else,

it has to be witchcraft.

So where all of the issues started.

When you get accused,

everyone sees you differently.

Even the ones that you're related to.

When my father was accused

of being a witch,

he got kind of kicked out

of the extended family.

So I think then

the issues started coming.

People started to be

very aggressive to us,

to the point of beating my mom.

So it got to the point

of physical attacks.

It was very dangerous.

- And what happened to your dad?

- They k*lled him.

They k*lled him

and that was when Land of Hope came.

Our life today

is a reflection of childhood.

I see that now in so many ways.

I was very excited about meeting

Hope's mum for the first time.

How does she look? How will she react?

How will Hope react?

A lot of emotions came to us,

because suddenly she was there

and Hope was very emotional.

Hi.

Good morning, welcome.

So what's your name?

My name is Justina.

How old are you?

I'm 23.

You were... 14, 15 years old

when you were pregnant with Hope?

Yes, 15.

So what happened?

Can you tell us why we found him

the way we found him?

Tell us the story.

We are here, because we want you

to have a relationship with your son.

We are not here to judge you, okay?

You were still a child yourself.

Did he marry you

or did he just take you as a wife?

What was the story

between you and him?

Because he's an old man.

I don't know, he came to us.

He asked me out and I refused.

I didn't want to.

You didn't like it?

I did not and he forced me that day.

Steven was born a year before

I gave birth to Daniel.

So you decided to name him Steven?

Was it also with Hope's father?

- Yes.

- When he was rescued,

we didn't know his name

and nobody told us his name,

so we needed to give him an identity.

We chose the name "Hope" for him.

That's so good.

Was it Hope's father

who left him there?

In that condition?

Yes, he threw him out in that place.

Don't be angry with me.

Don't worry. You are here now

and that's what's important.

This is your son.

Hope, your mom.

You were in her belly.

How are you?

He does not hear very well.

I'm sorry. I'm very sorry.

For all those things, I'm sorry.

Where's the mark?

I want to see the mark.

Here is one.

- That's the mark you gave him?

- Yes.

I'm sorry, okay?

Please, you have to forgive me.

Are you okay? Are you fine, Hope?

Okay?

Are you okay? No.

Hope might not understand.

He might think

that you're here to take him.

- No

- I know.

But we hope that you will come

visit him many times.

- Are they similar, Steven and Daniel?

- Daniel is taller.

He's taller than Hope?

I didn't want to interrupt you.

Hey, Hope.

Hey, my name is Martyna.

- Justina.

- It is nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you.

- You have a great son.

Right now, I can see

that he's confused.

He has pride

and he knows how he was

when he was found.

So there is happiness,

but there is also...

maybe anger.

She's not staying.

She's going back, okay?

You stay here,

but she'll see this place, okay?

And then she goes, okay?

Maybe some day he will find

a place in his heart to forgive me.

If you want to change the world,

start with children.

If you can change how they grow up,

you can actually change a generation.

Now it's time to look forward.

Hope is very happy to see his mom.

She has come back to visit us,

she has stayed at Land of Hope

for a long period.

He was so happy.

He took her hand and with much pride,

he was showing the other children:

"See? This is my mom."

You must learn to take the burden

of others upon yourself.

As leaders we should take the burden

of people that we're leading,

sacrifice for them.

Yeah, that's it.

Sacrifice.

I've known him for 10 years

and I've seen him crying two times.

Finally, there was a closure

in one of our biggest cases,

that is the story of Hope.

It has been not just blood,

sweat and tears

for me and for him,

but also for our relationship

and being parents.

One,

two,

three,

four... five!

You're cheating!

It has been a sacrifice.

When I became pregnant

we had to consider

where do we keep our son

and also his security.

We had to put our project first

and I raised our son in Denmark,

because that is more secure

and safer for him

and a better, healthier environment.

Also, sometimes I feel envy.

When I see couples on the streets

walking with their children,

I wish I could do that every day

with my son and his father.

Again, you want to see it again?

The truth is that I feel lonely

most times when I'm in Denmark.

But when I look at the 92 children

that we have now at my center,

children that were found

inside bushes

and have been just thrown away

and children who were

almost dying in our hands...

When I, today, see these children

at university, graduating,

I could never regret my decisions.

It has been hard work,

a big challenge in my life,

but in the end I'm so proud of that.

That is the fruit of all my decisions

and I'm very happy for it.