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Craig Kielburger
Chair of the Board of Directors of Kids Can Free the Children and Co-Founder of Leaders Today

When Craig was 12 years old, he read about a boy in Pakistan who had been sold as a slave, escaped, and later killed for speaking out in defense of child labour. Feeling both upset and inspired by the story, he and some friends formed Free the Children, and Craig, now 20, has traveled to countries all over the world speaking in defense of children's rights, especially child labour and poor living conditions. Free the Children is unique among organizations around the world because it is children and youth helping children; today over 100,000 children in 35 countries are involved!

Among many other things, Craig is a chairperson for the Commission on Globalization (with Mikhail Gorbachev) and he received the 2001 Peace Leadership Award from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. To find out more about Free the Children, go to www.freethechildren.com. Or, to take part in a Youth Leadership Workshop from Craig and his brother Marc, go to www.leaderstoday.com.