Read The Inspiring Story Of A Burn Survivor, Who Is Not Letting Her Scars Slow Her Down
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- March 27, 2018
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There is a saying “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” which simply means everything that happens to us good or bad helps us become better people. This is the story of Magdalene Edet Ekanem, a burn survivor who runs a foundation ,Magdalene Burns And Scars Survivors Foundation.
Read her Story below,
My name is Magdalene Edet Ekanem, i am a burn survivor and the founder of Magdalene burn and scars survivors foundation (MBSSF).
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At age 12 the devil tried all his best to take away my life but God’s power superseded his. On that faithful day it was at midday i woke up to ease myself outside and didn’t go back inside immediately, with sleepy eyes i went to sit down on a kitchen stool which was place close to a full pot of hot cooking oil, i didn’t know the stool wasn’t well balanced on the ground, i also didn’t know the cooking oil was hot until a neighbor noticed the stool i was sitting on wasn’t well balanced and yelled at me to get up from the stool.
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The next thing i heard was people screaming and pouring water on me. The next place i found myself was at the hospital, the doctor told my grand mother that i wouldn’t survive it because the burn affected my navel that my chance of survival was very tiny, i was lying helpless looking at my grand mother weeping and begging the doctor to do something about my situation. As a child i didn’t know the gravity of what happened to me until my late teens, i started having inferiority complex, i couldn’t dress up or even have my bath in front of my fellow girls i was always hiding my body.
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I started conquering my fears and inferiority complex in 2016 when a fellow burn survivors photoshoot went viral @chillonmill. Her scars are more than mine yet she is always bold to flaunt them she embrasses her scars, she became my motivation.
When i conquered my fears i thought of it that there are many burn survivors out there that are struggling with emotional trauma and inferiority complex, so i came up with MBSSF, a foundation that is here to stand as a voice for survivors and to render support within our capacity and with the help of the entire public.
