One morning, in 1995, Craig whom is a twelve-year old Canadian, while getting ready for school, noticed the news headlines in the daily paper: "Boy, 12, murdered for speaking out against child labour". The article told the story of a young boy from Pakistan - i don't remember his full name unluckily but it was iqbal- who was sold into child labor at the age of four as a carpet weaver to pay back a loan that his parents had taken out !!
Iqbal worked 12 hours a day six days a week tying tiny knots to make carpets.

At the age of twelve, Iqbal escaped and spoke out against child labour. For this he was killed.

On reading this, he just felt disbelief and shock. Craig, probably like many children in his age in the developed world, had been unaware that such a thing as child labor even existed!! But it affected him deeply. He was a child anyway didn't learn the indifference yet.
Through his initial research, he discovered that there were 250 million child laborers in the world, half of them working full time, and many in risky conditions.

Craig with a group of children from his class felt they had to do something, even though they started off unsure of what they could do.
One reviewer who had also read about Iqbal and later met Craig said that he had read the same article and was chocked. but Craig was not only appalled, but addressed the problem directly

They formed an organization called Free the Children, not only to free children from abuse but to free them from the idea that they are not old enough or smart enough or capable enough to help change the world.

Here are the main four goals of Free the Children:
-To develop the awareness of the issue of child labour and children’s rights
-To pressure world leaders to make the protection and the education of children a priority
-To create programs to help free children from abuse
-To work in cooperation with children in developing countries and around the world

Craig and his friends started doing small actions:
A petition asking world leaders to help end child labour and the exploitation of children
A letter writing campaign. They wrote letters to newspapers, to the Prime Minister of Canada and President of the USA and to other world leaders
Organisation of fundraising activities like garage sales, car washes, bake sales and walk-a-thons to raise money to build schools and to create alternative sources of income for working children.

Do you wanna see the results?
What started off as a children’s enterprise quickly gained the attention of adults. In November 1995, Craig was invited to speak for 3 minutes at a Labour Convention in Ontario. which ended up speaking for 15 minutes and received standing ovations. 2000 union members were so moved that they donated $150,000 that very day to Free the Children to build a school in India for child labourers who had left their work in the carpet industry.

Craig met with Canadian Prime Minister during a trip to India. Craig had organised a visit to the sub-continent to see first hand the experience of the young people Free the Children was helping.

Free the Children has now spread to more than 35 countries with more than 100,000 young people involved.

And it built more than 350 schools providing education to over 20,000 children, Created alternative sources of income for poor families

The organisation has also recently taken up leadership development of youth as a major focus of their activities, aiming to give children the voice and opportunity to participate in issues which affect them.

What is striking in this case, is the commitment to action and the innate belief in this group of children that they could make a difference people we can make a difference !
Children in this case committed themselves to trying to make a difference. Can we take some lessons from their development ?

Craig by age 12 he could manage to take a move to make the world in better condition he made a difference guys , he didn't fear that elders gonna deride his efforts or even doubt it he just did what he thought to be his duty. and he made a difference wish we all do even less effort and we'll change da whole face of world but if we bothered to move towards utility.