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Africa-Press – Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>President William Ruto has urged able Kenyans to come to the aid of the poor and the needy.<\/p>\n

The head of state, in a long post, said that we need to always think of others and how we can be of benefit to humanity, how we can lend a helping hand and wipe away tears.<\/p>\n

“Today, there is a lot of poverty in the land, so if our God Almighty has blessed you, be a blessing to others, extend a helping hand to those in need. Remember, your giving, is also a way of appreciating divine blessings, bounties, and favour of God Almighty upon you,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

Ruto added that humanity should come first, before what we as a country stand to gain out of the situation.<\/p>\n

“It is very important that we all should help the poor and needy, the orphans and widows amongst us so that they can meet their needs. Please don’t be a Kevin Carter, be human and think humanity. Beware, we humans are not humans, if we lack humaneness in all we do,” he continued.<\/p>\n

The President narrated the story of a South African Photojournalist Kevin Carter who took his own life despite winning the Pulitzer Prize for his amazing photographic work in which a vulture was waiting for a little girl to die and eat on her corp.<\/p>\n

“As Kevin Carter was savouring his feat and being celebrated on major news channels and networks worldwide for such an ‘exceptional photographic skill’, he lived just for a few months to enjoy his supposed achievement and fame and later got depressed,” Ruto said.<\/p>\n

Ruto said Kevin Carter could have still been alive today and even much more famous if he had just picked that little girl up and taken her to the United Nations Feeding Center, where she was attempting to reach or at least take her somewhere safe.<\/p>\n

“Kevin Carter’s depression started when during one of such interviews (a phone-in programme), someone called in and asked him what happened to the little girl. He simply replied, ‘I didn’t wait to find out after this shot, as I had a flight to catch…’ Then the caller said, ‘I put it to you that there were two vultures on that day, one had a camera.'”<\/p>\n

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