Photo by Kevin Carter

Photo: Kevin Carter

Taken in 1994 during the famine in Sudan, this photo is of a famine stricken child slowly crawling towards an United Nations food camp, located a kilometre away. A lone vulture is in the background waiting for the child to die before it can eat her. When this photo was published in the ‘New York Times’ a decade ago, it shocked the world then. Till this day, no-one knows what happened to the child - including the photographer, Kevin Carter, who left the place as soon as the photograph was taken. Kevin Carter later committed suicide from depression.

The eternal destiny of the girl above is in the hands of God, who requires little from those to whom little has been given. But to those of us who have been given much, much will be demanded of us. (Luke 12:48)