Free The Children

Free the Children is a great organization that helps people in many countries around the world get clean water, food, health care, and an education. One of the greatest things about this organization is that it is kids helping kids, it was even started by a 7th grade boy! One morning a 7th grader by the name of Craig Kielburger got up and read in the newspaper something that shocked him. He read an article about a boy his age who had been sold into child labor when he was only four years old. Until his tenth birthday the boy had spent his life chained to a loom making carpets, but when he was ten he was freed! Instead of spending his life at home, remembering his horrible past and knowing that there were other kids his age still being forced to work, he decided to inform the world about child labor. He did this until he was shot by the people who ran the carpet factory. Craig was so shocked when he read the article that he took it to school with him and presented it to his classmates. Then he said basically, who wants to help? That day eleven hands went up and together they started Free The Children. Now Free the Children is helping hundreds of lives. Click here to visit the Free The Children website.