Craig Kielburger, Author at Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Sat, 07 Apr 2012 22:23:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg Craig Kielburger, Author at Teaching Kids News 32 32 How Reading The News Helped Craig Kielburger Change The World https://teachingkidsnews.com/2012/04/07/how-reading-the-news-helped-craig-kielburger-change-the-world/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2012/04/07/how-reading-the-news-helped-craig-kielburger-change-the-world/#comments Sat, 07 Apr 2012 09:00:04 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=5688 One morning when I was 12, I was munching on cereal and flipping through the newspaper in search of the comics.

I couldn’t get past the front-page story. It was about a young boy in Pakistan, a child labourer named Iqbal Masih.

When he was just four years old, Iqbal went to work in a cramped, dusty room for 12 hours a day, six days a week, weaving carpets in a factory.

Iqbal was 12. I was 12.

I knew I had to do something for him. But what?

I hadn’t been looking to make a big difference in the world. I was looking for Calvin and Hobbes!

Still, I tore out Iqbal’s story and brought it to school.

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