The Three Teen Activists

Making a difference Teen activists are inspiring and helpful. They are the ones who are determined to make a difference in the world. They are the ones who never give up on their dreams and hopes. Through their thoughts, sacrifice, determination, and their inspiring heart, they make the world happy, so everyone can live equally. Three teen activists, Malala Yousafzai, Alex Lin, and Iqbal Masih, use their personalities and inspiration so that they can stop unfair education, pollution, and child labor. They are willing to sacrifice to help the world and change history. First, Malala Yousafzai is an inspiring girl who wanted girls to have education. She was innovative and adaptable to speak out. When she was twelve, her school shut down, so

When he was four years old when he was called in from play to be sold from his parents for extra cash for his older brother’s wedding. His family had to sell him to a rug maker to work off a loan of about twelve dollars in U.S. cash. Iqbal had to work a year entirely without pay, then after, he was “paid” twenty cents per day, that means if he made a mistake, he was fined so he didn’t really make any money. Then, by the time he was ten, his loan grew to about two-hundred sixty bucks. During work which is six days a week, fourteen hours a day, They had poor conditions like poor light, no ventilations, heat, unfiltered air, and many more. Even Iqbal himself explains his work explained in the article, Pats Eduent, “Even sick children were not allowed to rest. They also hung children upside down until they got sicker. Children were beaten. If children fell asleep or were slow in their work, they would be punished by being beaten or starved.” Then in 1992 the Bonded Labor LIberation Front let him free at age ten. When he was out, he was sick and frail, half the height of a ten year old, and stopped growing. Iqbal also had arthritis with kidney and breathing problems, plus his spine was permanently curved, with scars and cuts from the tools. He then became an activist against child labor and risked pretending to be a factory worker so he could get information about the children working there, or to even help escape. Iqbal also helped free about three thousand child laborers from all sorts of factories, and became a good speaker and explained his experiences in BLLF meetings and journalists. He also visited the U.S. from Sweden to Massachusetts. But when he arrived back in Pakistan, his life, was cut short. Some people say the carpet factory worker murdered him, but nobody really. Iqbal was an inspiration to many people, plus some people planned to build a school in his home area to