Many children are abandoned, tortured and killed because they are said to be witches. Here is an abandoned, maltreated and wounded boy living as a child-witch on the streets of the small fishing village Ibaka in the Niger Delta.
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Stella, a "child-witch," lived in the streets of the small fishing village Ibaka in the Niger Delta.
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Stella lived on the streets for months before being rescued by the local NGO Child‘s Right And Rehabilitation Network (CRARN).
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Stella stands on the streets of the small fishing village Ibaka in the Niger Delta before being rescued by the CRARN-team.
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After arriving to the center of Child‘s Right And Rehabilitation Network (CRARN) Stella gets a new pair of slippers marked with her name.
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Stella gets washed by another girl at the local CRARN center after being rescued from the streets.
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Sam Itauma is the founder of Child's Right and Rehabilitation Network (CRARN).
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Stella, who has been living for months on the streets, slowly becomes integrated into the classes and groups of the NGO center.
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Stella's new home is the center of CRARN in Eket, Nigeria.
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About 160 "children witches“ live in the local facilities of CRARN. Here, a little girl falls asleep on the floor of the center.
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Nkoyo is sleeping on the floor of a dormitory in the shelter of the NGO CRARN.
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Girls sleep on a table in the shelter of the NGO CRARN.
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Abraham (8) Israel Ekpa (12) and Godwin (9) play cards in one of the dormitories of CRARN.
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Children attend Sunday service at the local NGO center.
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