Imagine a 12 year old child making an impact on this world? How amazing and cool is that!!!!!! Living in Canada, it's so easy to take things for granted, my comfortable life. Everyone is so occupied on in their lives they don't even pause and take a moment to think about whats going on around the world. The misery and pain of children just like them, working and not getting paid. But a Canadian citizen named Craig Kielburger took action and stood up for his beliefs.
He wanted to create world change, and he did.
In 1995, Craig Kielburger was only 12 years old and had a normal safe life like you and me. Craig was inspired by an article in the newspaper that was written about a 12 year old boy named Iqbal Masih who was battling against child labour. The boy had been murdered after speaking about the terrible conditions he and other child-labourers had to face. He was shocked and he thought about Iqbal and him and how they were the same age but their lives were so different. That day onwards his life changed... He was so determined to take action. So he made a group called Free the children in his class and started making a positive impact on this world.
He has made a huge impact on this world and twenty years later that ragtag bunch of seventh graders has grown into a movement of two and a half million young people, freed from…show more content… Craig was inspired by an article in the newspaper that was written about a 12 year old boy named Iqbal Masih who was battling against child labour. The boy had been murdered after speaking about the terrible conditions he and other child-labourers had to face. He was shocked and he thought about Iqbal and him and how they were the same age but their lives were so different. That day onwards his life changed... He was so determined to take action. So he made a group called Free the children in his class and started making a positive impact on this