This picture was taken in Southern Sudan by photographer Kevin Carter. As a matter of fact, this photograph won Kevin a Pulitzer Prize in 1994. Just 3 months later Kevin was found dead, an apparent suicide. There is a lot of speculation as to the reason why Kevin took his own life but as of this date I have not found anything that I can say is absolute fact. I have read that Kevin was haunted by the nature of destruction he witnessed in peoples lives but again I am not sure anyone knows the complete truth about his death.
Here are some things that I do know.
As reported in The USA Today Newspaper on October 20th, 2009, 16,000 children die every day in the world in which we now live. This is a statistic quothed from an organization called “Bread for the World”.
“There are a billion people who are chronically hungry. That’s roughly one of every seven inhabitants of this planet. Hunger is a far greater pandemic than AIDS. Nearly 16,000 children die of hunger every day,according to Bread for the World, a Washington, D.C., faith-based organization that advocates for the hungry. That amounts to more deaths in a single year than the total of all the people who died violently in the wars of 13 countries over the past 50 years”.
Source: http://www.bread.org/press-room/news/feed-hungry-feed-themselves.html
This is why I am raising money for the Children of Sudan. I can’t save the life of every child but I can make a difference in the life of some or maybe even many.
Here are a couple of links to articles that have been done about my Marathon Run in Atlanta Ga on Thanksgiving Day. I would love to hear from you.
Ronnie
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