David and I finally found Hope´s mother !!

I knew in my heart that someday we would find her - now we have!

Earlier this year while David and I were filming the new documentary “Woman at the End of the World” our years of search finally ended.

Millions of people in Poland have already witnessed the moment Hope sees his mother for the first time and it left them all in tears.

I have known David for more than a decade and only seen him cry one time.
When I picked up Hope to take him to see his mother who were waiting for him under our mango tree I saw David cry for the second time.

Word´s cannot express the emotions that overwhelmed us in that moment.

Hope´s mother was only 15 years old when she gave birth to Hope. She was still a child herself !

Hope´s father was at that time nearly 50 years old and he was the Village Head. Definitely not an equal relationship. Unfortunately it is very common for men in the rural communities to take any young girl they want to be their wife.

While being pregnant Hope´s mother had to take care of her parents who both were very sick. After giving birth to Hope her mother died and not long after her father also died.

At the age of 15 years old Hope´s mother lost her parent and had to take care of Hope being a child herself.

She named her baby Steven. Hope´s real name is Steven.

Hope´s mother has stayed at Land of Hope and Hope has developed a close bond with her. It took him some time to forgive her but in Hope´s story his mother is innocent. She never left him in the village to die.

She was forced to leave the village when she got pregnant with Hope´s younger brother Daniel at the age of only 16 years old. She was send to Lagos and this entire story involves rape, child labor and abuse and I can therefore not reveal all the details.

What´s important is that Hope and his mother are reunited ❤️

Ps: When I was pregnant with our son, David suggested we name him Steven.

Kobojunkie:
I still do not understand why Hope is to be given back to the mother. Is she herself well and able to care for him now? It has only been, what, 7 years and she is only in her early to mid-20s. Is she able to afford her care along with that of her two kids?

StPete:
Till this day, innocent children are brandished as witches or wizard in Akwa Ibom. The boy should not be given to the mother, she should be penalized for her atrocities. She does not deserve to be called a mother. Fucking stupid bitch that opened her legs to be fvcked

Kobojunkie:
I still do not understand why Hope is to be given back to the mother. Is she herself well and able to care for him now? It has only been, what, 7 years and she is only in her early to mid-20s. Is she able to afford her care along with that of her two kids?

ceeceeuwa:
It took a woman from Poland to show us how to cherish human lives. People watching the documentary in Poland will probably think we are still monkeys with tail dangling behind us seeing such barbaric behaviors from us.
We still have a long way to go!

Guyman01:
Taking to her Facebook page on Tuesday, September 5, 2023, Lovén revealed that Hope finally met his mother.

A little boy rescued by a Danish aid worker Anja Ringgren Lovén in 2016 after he was branded a witch by his family and left to starve to death in Akwa Ibom has reunited with his mother.

Loven was on January 30, 2016 photographed giving water to the severely emaciated 2-year-old boy before rescuing him.

The boy had wandered the streets for months when Anja got a phone call and immediately led a rescue team including her husband David Emmanuel Umem, to bring the child to the Children's Education and Development Foundation (ACAEDF) aka “Land of Hope”

According to the aid worker, Hope's mother, then a minor, was impregnated by his father, an almost 50 year old Village Head, who chose her as a 'wife'. She gave birth to Hope at the age of 15.

Lovén said the entire story involves rape, child labor and abuse, adding that she cannot reveal all the details.

She also didn't reveal circumstances that led to the boy being branded a witch and abandoned.


Read her post below:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0b17YmQkuzU52oddfc8rzWZ5YN5TvSF8CqTSLP3MyLL6cC4KbKMUg6eUzQTBvJeJgl&id=100044271404682&mibextid=2JQ9oc

Samantha124:
I remember seeing this on the news somewhere... This woman doesn't deserve to be reunited with this beautiful boy after everything she put him through... If it wasn't for that woman who rescued him, he'd have been dead by now and she wouldn't care.

When she ran away to Lagos, she could've taken him along.