South Africa, April 9 -- Five-year-old "T" - a pseudonym given to safeguard the girl's identity - was lured from her garden by someone she knew. She was taken to an abandoned home down the street, where she was sexually assaulted by four men for two hours, suffering extensive injuries. Intimidated by threats of further harm, she hid these injuries for a week following the incident, enduring severe pain and trauma in silence before her family uncovered the truth.

When The Global Empathy Project, a separate non-profit organisation (NPO) that provides support for victims of severe trauma in South Africa and Zambia, learned of T's ordeal, they immediately arranged for medical intervention. As the necessary treatment was not available in Zamb...