Free the Children – An Awakening and Action of a 12-Year-Old

Author: [Canada] Greg/Meijer
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Publish Date: 2001-05-01
Features: At 12, Quig Greg, living in Toronto, Canada, opened the newspaper one morning in April 1995 like usual to look for comics, but instead read a news article: A 12-year-old Pakistani boy, Iqbal, who had been sold into child slavery since childhood, later escaped servitude and became a child labor representative, fighting for the rights of child laborers. However, a cruel gunshot took Iqbal's life... This news forever changed Greg's life, transforming him from a carefree middle-class child into a child political activist. He organized a children's organization to liberate child laborers, risked danger to conduct on-the-ground investigations in countries and regions with high concentrations of child labor, and became the spokesperson for the 250 million child laborers worldwide.