Free the children : a young man fights against child labor and proves that children can change the world /
Kielburger, Craig
Free the children : a young man fights against child labor and proves that children can change the world / Craig Kielburger with Kevin Major - New York : HarperPerennial, 2000 - xi, 321 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm
Thornhill -- Toronto -- Dhaka -- Back to Dhaka -- Bangkok -- Calcutta -- Kathmandu -- Varanasi -- Delhi -- Karachi and Islamabad -- Lahore -- Madras -- Sivakasi -- Cochin and Bombay -- Thornhill and beyond -- What is childhood?
Here is the dramatic and moving story of one child's transformation from a normal, middle-class kid from the suburbs to an activist, fighting against child labor on the world stage of international human rights. Making headlines around the globe, Graig Keilburger and his organization, Free the Children, which he founded at the age of twelve, have brought unprecedented attention to the worldwide abuse of children's rights. "Free the Children"is a passionate and astounding story and a moving testament to the power that children and young adults have to change the world, as witnessed through the achievements of one remarkable young man
0060930659 9780060930653
99045055
Kielburger, Craig
Social reformers--Canada--Biography
Child labor
Children's rights
HD6231.K53 / A3 2000
Free the children : a young man fights against child labor and proves that children can change the world / Craig Kielburger with Kevin Major - New York : HarperPerennial, 2000 - xi, 321 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm
Thornhill -- Toronto -- Dhaka -- Back to Dhaka -- Bangkok -- Calcutta -- Kathmandu -- Varanasi -- Delhi -- Karachi and Islamabad -- Lahore -- Madras -- Sivakasi -- Cochin and Bombay -- Thornhill and beyond -- What is childhood?
Here is the dramatic and moving story of one child's transformation from a normal, middle-class kid from the suburbs to an activist, fighting against child labor on the world stage of international human rights. Making headlines around the globe, Graig Keilburger and his organization, Free the Children, which he founded at the age of twelve, have brought unprecedented attention to the worldwide abuse of children's rights. "Free the Children"is a passionate and astounding story and a moving testament to the power that children and young adults have to change the world, as witnessed through the achievements of one remarkable young man
0060930659 9780060930653
99045055
Kielburger, Craig
Social reformers--Canada--Biography
Child labor
Children's rights
HD6231.K53 / A3 2000