2 648 848 hours volunteered, schools built in 45 countries, so many pennies collected that if they were stacked one on top of each other they would weigh more than 64 African elephants [collected to get clean water in Africa]; the root cause for all these good deeds is one person. Craig Kielburger was and continues to be a momentous person in Canadian history. He has forever changed Canadian history due to his ever-growing list of good deeds including: the movement he has started to inspire youth, how he continues to change the lives of people around the world, and the way he brings people together to create change. Craig continues to prove Canada proud with his actions.
Craig has started a worldwide movement that inspires the youth of today. In many ways he continues to shape the way young minds think through his personal life story, the creation and expansion of We Day, and the continuous effort to stay connected to modern technology. To begin with, Craig Kielburger started wanting to make change and help people at the young age of 12. He saw that Iqbal Masih, a boy not much younger than him, was killed because he spoke out against child labour. This act of courage from a boy in such a hard situation sparked Craig’s curiosity and was the beginning of his organization “Free the Children”. These humble beginnings would bring so much change for the world and the story would inspire children around the world for many years to come. Additionally, Craig started and grew We Day which is an annual "youth empowerment" event that motivates youth to take action on local and global issues. This event has grown to inspire more children every year; “In 2007 at the first We Day, 8,000 youth came together at Toronto’s Ricoh Coliseum to discover...
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...’s saved and made better will never be the same. Each time he built a school, gave a speech, collected a penny, inspired just one person he changed a life. Even more importantly he made that person want to change a life. Craig Kielburger has started the greatest movement of our time where will you take it?
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