Victory was only a few years old when his own community decided he was a witch.
In Nigeria, that accusation is no joke: it means total isolation, hunger, the streets. That is how he ended up, leaning against some railings, too weak even to stand, when Anja Ringgren Lovén’s team found him.
The Danish woman founded Land of Hope in 2012 and had already rescued more than 100 children in the same situation, but Victory’s condition was different: he had tetanus, an infection that had paralyzed his nervous system to the point that he could not breathe without help.
For months, he depended on oxygen while doctors fought to stabilize him. No one had much hope for his recovery. But they supported him, limb by limb, until he was able to move on his own again.
Today, he lives alongside other rescued children in the same home, protected 24 hours a day in one of the most dangerous areas of West Africa, with a life the streets would never have allowed him to have.
