Nigeria: Rekindled Hope for Injured Children of the N'East

17 October 2016

While most children without limbs lost to gunshots or bombings in the North-east may have had their dreams dashed, a few have been given a new lease of life, including prosthetics and the opportunity to get educated by Stanbic IBTC Bank.

"To kill the big rats, you have to kill the little rats." These were the venomous and repeated message by Radio Mille Collines in Kigali on the eve of the Rwanda genocide, resulting in the hacking to death of over 300,000 newborns and children from Tutsi, the country's minority tribe. This led to a global outrage, as children, ordinarily should be sheathed from such conflict, which in the first case was started by adults.

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