“There is no greater violence than to deny the dreams of our children.”
Since his childhood, Kailash Satyarthi had always questioned the wrong and unjust. As a young child of five years, he was disturbed deeply when he saw a small boy working with his cobbler father shining shoes at the school gate on the first day of school. He could not understand why some children were different from him. It did not take Satyarthi much time to understand the stark contrast between his life and that of the cobbler’s son.
Satyarthi always felt very strongly that all children are born equal and therefore have the right to lead a good life. Public schooling was not free when Satyarthi was around eleven years old, so with the help of a few like-minded friends, Satyarthi started a football club to raise money for those who were unable to attend school. In the years that followed Satyarthi and his friends went ahead and put up snack stalls at fetes and fairs and were able to raise money towards school fees of underprivileged children.
This was just the start of a decades long journey in which Satyarthi has been working to end child labour and campaign for children's right to education. In 2014 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts.
Read his full biography: https://bit.ly/2mvlSsm
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