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BANGLADESH - GIRL CHILD ACID ATTACK VICTIM - SHEEMA

 

 

Bangladesh - Here is Sheema, 5 years old now, who was attacked with acid by her father, when she was only 10 months old, because he denied her as his child and wanted to kill her and her mother.

 

ASF - Acid Survivors Foundation of Bangladesh, rescued Sheema immediately after the attack and saved her life. Sheema is now going to school. Her mother is working at the Catering Project of ASF. However, her mother is still struggling to put her husband in jail. He is continuously threatening her to withdraw the case. 

 

In last 11 years ASF has recorded 3000 people attacked with acid, and nearly 30% of them are children.

 

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