In The Child in the Pond, journalist and philosopher Max Boogaard travels to Sierra Leone on behalf of Liliane Fonds. Together with a team of local aid workers, he visits children with disabilities who are hidden from the outside world. Communities often believe these children are possessed.
In this episode, Max visits Annabel and her mother Ramatu. They live in a damp, unfinished house in Freetown. The family does not want Annabel to stay alive.
During his journey, Max also explores the famous thought experiment by ethicist and activist Peter Singer. Why would you immediately jump into a pond to save a drowning child, even if it ruins your expensive clothes? Yet for the same amount of money those clothes cost, you could help save a child far away who is in need. Why does that feel different? And why do so many people choose not to act?
Visit www.lilianefonds.org/podcast to see what you can do for children like Annabel and to watch footage from the series.
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