When Mukamazimpaka Mwamini first met Manze ahead of welcoming him into her family as a foster child, he was in a terrible state. Then aged seven, with untreated cerebral palsy and severe learning difficulties, Manze had suffered years of neglect in an orphanage.
In addition to a leg fracture, Manze was incontinent, malnourished and regularly gripped by seizures. Too weak to move, he spent his days lying motionless in bed, fed on bottles of baby formula.
“He was such a skinny child,” recalled Mwamini. “The plaster cast on his leg was almost heavier than him.”