Teen Activist Research Paper

Teen activists are very important to this world and make a huge difference, they change our thoughts and actions for the better. To become a teen activist, you have to see something in this world that needs to happen, or needs to stop and then do something about it. In this essay I am going to give you examples of three teen activists, Malala Yousafzai, Alex Lin, and Craig Kielburger, and what difference they made in this world.

One great example of a teen activist is Malala Yousafzai. She stood up for equal rights and girls education, Malala states in the John Stewart video “I believe in equality and I believe there is no difference between a man and a women. ” She says that because she wants both genders to be treated the same.Malala created a movement and people started chanting, marching and writing about girls education. She also created a Malala fund to raise money for those children who don’t have an education, so she could pay for them because she believed the best way to fight back against Taliban was education. Malala wanted every girl, every child to

One day he was flipping through the newspaper looking for the comic sections, but came across a short story: Iqbal Masih a 12 year old former child slave in Pakistan, had been murdered for standing up for human rights. Craig knew he should do something, but there was only one of him, so he had decided to convince a handful of 7th graders that they could do something about it. Soon the WE charity had been created with help from Craig and his classmates. They had also created Free the children, which helps slaves like Iqbal get freed. Along with the WE charity they created a WE day that celebrates kids who started a charity and raised money by washing cars and doing bake sales which I found out from the video “CRAIG AND MARC KIELBURGER” . That shows just how much time Craig took out of his life to helps other kids in