Free The Children

This week, I got an incredible chance to meet with a political group called " Me To We". It is about freeing children from child labour. And youths helping youths around the world. It was incredible presentation with passionate speeches from Martin Luther King Jr. and other amazing world leaders. I thought that presentation was powerful and showed us how we can help. Then I got this once in a lifetime chance to do a workshop and find out even more on how I can help. Did you know that only 4% of the world's population is in North America but we have 30% of the world's wealth and food. South America has 9% of the worlds population yet has 5% percent of the world's wealth and food.Africa has 9% of the world's population and only 3% of the world's food and wealth. Europe has 12% of the world's population yet and astounding 45% of the world's food and wealth. Asia has 61% of the world's population and only 19% of its food and wealth.

Did you know that most of the world's child labour is in Asia? well it is. Mostly in places like India where beggars roam on the streets. Children are chained to machines and given very little food. In Africa, very few children are sent to school most are in child labour. The United Nations has proclaimed child labour universally illegal but yet hundreds of children are still in it. Thanks to Free The Children and organizations like it 1000's of children are freed each year. A 12 year old boy read in the newspaper that a boy named Iqbal, who was 12 years old was freed from child labour at the age of ten started roaming making speeches on why child labour was wrong was shot in the head while riding his bike. He was silenced. Craig Kielburger, at the age of twelve decided to do something about it so he asked his teacher if he could read the article to the class. She agreed. After he'd read it he said" I'm going to do something about this, who's is going to help me". And so Free The Children was born. Diversity is our strength and human rights are for all of us, not only whites, not only blacks, not only Spanish, not Arabic, not only men,not only women. every single one of us should have human rights. Once a year, take a vow of silence for a day for all those who are silenced everyday.Make a change and do it now, the world won't wait.

Go to www.metowe.com or www.hungersite.com all of these organizations are for making a change.

Sincerley,

Jacqueline