FREE

THE
CHILDREN
By: Monali P.

WHAT IS FREE THE

CHILDREN?
Free the Children was founded in 1995 by two
brothers known as Craig and Marc Kielburger.
It is an organization and youth empowerment
movement. Free the Children's goals is for
children to be free of exploitation, poverty
and abuse. Many families suffering from
poverty sell their children to factories in
order to make money. Originally, Free the
Children would break into factories to free
the child labourers working there. However,
this plan failed as the families of the freed
child labourers, would sell the kids again. Due
to this secondary issue, they changed the way
they approached the issue by making
education a priority. Free the Children
believes that education is the key in order to
combat poverty.

FREE THE CHILDREN ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Free the Children uses a five-pillar development plan.
EDUCATION
Due to their education WATER
pillar, 200,000
children have been With their water pillar
able to get education being built, one million
people have been
and help themselves affected positively
and their lifting them from
communities. poverty and helping
their families and
FOOD communities.
Due to the food pillar,
15 million meals were OPPURTUNITY
produced by farmers
and families to support Due to the opportunity
their communities. pillar, more than
30,000 women have
HEALTH been able to provide
money for their
The Baraka Hospital families, combating the
located in Kenya, has root cause of child
helped over 130,000 labour.
patients, reducing mother-
child mortality rates.

HOW CAN YOU HELP?

Donate
Educate yourself and others on the
issue of child labour
Boycott purchasing products
manufactured by child labours
Contact municipal, provincial, and
federal governments about products
manufactured from child labours