This photo was taken by Kevin Carter in 1993. The child pictured in the photo survived for fourteen years before dying to malarial fever. Carter won a Pulitzer prize for this image, but his memories of it and similar scenes he witnessed caused him to take his own life the very next year. This terrible, haunting image forces us to ask the question: when Jesus said that the poor would always be with us, did He mean that there will always be people in the world that are doomed to suffer in the way the child in the photo suffered? Starving as a child and dead fourteen years later from malaria? Is that what Jesus meant?
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The Poor Don't Have to Always Be With You
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This photo was taken by Kevin Carter in 1993. The child pictured in the photo survived for fourteen years before dying to malarial fever. Carter won a Pulitzer prize for this image, but his memories of it and similar scenes he witnessed caused him to take his own life the very next year. This terrible, haunting image forces us to ask the question: when Jesus said that the poor would always be with us, did He mean that there will always be people in the world that are doomed to suffer in the way the child in the photo suffered? Starving as a child and dead fourteen years later from malaria? Is that what Jesus meant?