I dont know if anyone watched this programme on Channel4 last night, but it was upsetting to say the least. Its a good thing C4 made the programme and let people know.
Basically in Nigeria, if a family death or village crisis occours, young children (mainly girls) are being targeted as witches. These so called Christian Pastors tell the parents of these yougn children that their son or daughter is a witch or wizard, the family usually chucks the child out of the village to fend for themselves. In some cases though, like on last nights programme, the children accused of being witches were burnt, killed and basically abused by villagers who believe they are witches.
These Christian Pastors including one famous woman Prophetess all say that the child has been possessed and they basically say the child must be killed to rid child of this 'disease'
It was terrible to watch though, kids at the age of like, 5 were being abused on streets and on the programme one girl went back to her village with her mother, and a man in the village said he was going to kill her before sundown if she did not leave the village.
The good thing out of this is that a rescue centre was built, and the programme followed the nurses and children in the centre who were all accused of being witches. The girl in the video below was seen at the end of the documentary smiling and laughing and she had clearly recovered from being abused and abandoned by her family.
I just felt I had to make a thread and talk about it because on Facebook there is a group were you can all support this charity and on a good note nearly £15,000 pounds has been raised so far after last nights programme, to go forward to the charity helping these children.
Here is that video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H64VrjkqhMI
Thanks for reading
