The
photo is the “Pulitzer Prize” winning photo taken in 1994 during the
Sudan Famine. The picture depicts stricken child crawling towards a
United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away. The vulture is
waiting for the child to die so that it can eat him. This picture
shocked the whole world. No one knows what happened to the child,
including the photographer Kevin Carter who left the place as soon as
the photograph was taken. Three months later he committed suicide due to
depression.
In
the past few years, insanely greedy, heartless wall street speculators
have more than doubled the price of food in countries where people live
on less than $1.00 or 2.00 per day. Around 30,000 people die of hunger
each day. An estimated 25,000 of them are children 14 & under. They
are NOT dying because of a food shortage (tons of food rots in
warehouses every day), but simply because they have no money. Meanwhile
the rich get richer and their hearts grow colder. Our world won't be
civilized until everyone has enough food. Please Share this and insist
that very serious & intense wars on hunger & extreme greed be
started asap!
PLEASE: Take a part in your local Occupy Movement or support the Movement.
Yes, the
problem isn't food shortage but unequal distribution of food, and greed
has resulted in those companies who are capable of supplying food
trying to control prices to maximise profits, causing those in other
places unable to afford the food. We all can do our part to address the problem of famine in our own way. It all starts with the power of one.
