Throughout the world, child workers are demanding:
"Restore our childhoods. No more child labor!"
Student-led initiatives in the U.S. are working to
help enslaved children move from bondage into schools. Your voice added to
those of other students is powerful. Check and see what some student
activists are already doing!
To hear what students activists are saying, click
here.
In 1994, after the suspicious murder of Pakistani child laborer turned activist Iqbal Masih, the school children at the Broad Meadows Middle School in Quincy, MA decided to turn their anger into activism and vowed to keep Iqbal's dream alive of every child having an education.' The Broad Meadows students raised money for a school in Iqbal's memory in Pakistan, which opened in 1996, and went on to raise a total of $147,000 to build more schools.
Today, ten years later, the students have co-founded Operation Day's
Work-USA that encourages U.S.
youth to team together once a
school year to re-build schools in developing countries. This national
program is free and is student run. About 1,000 U.S. youth
are now involved in 20 schools in 13 states, grades 5-12. About 1,000
youth in a developing countries benefit from this program.
The U.S. youth choose the NGO also and the type of aid
(school, orphanage, clinic, scholarships, micro-credit loans for moms,
books, etc.).
Contact:
Broad Meadows Middle School
50 Calvin Road, Quincy, MA 02169
RonAdams2@aol.com
Free The Children is an international network of children helping children at a local, national and international level through representation, leadership and action. It was founded by Craig Kielburger in 1995, when he was 12 years old. The primary goal of the organization is not only to free children from poverty and exploitation, but to also free children and young people from the idea that they are powerless to bring about positive social change and to improve the lives of their peers.
Free the Children is unlike any other children's charity in the world, as it is an organization by, of and for children that fully embodies the notion that children and young people themselves can be leaders of today in creating a more just, equitable and sustainable world.
Contact:
Craig Kielburger, Founder
Suite
300, 7368 Yonge Street
Thornhill,
Ontario
L4J 8H9 Canada
Tel: (905) 760-9382
USA Only Tel: 1(800) 203-9091
Fax: (905) 760-9157
info@freethechildren.com
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Stand in Solidarity with children and youth around the world! Send a message to fellow student activists and working children. We’ll post them on this site and they will become part of the record for the Children’s World Congress on Child Labor! To send a message to be posted, click here.
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