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The World’s Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child 2006:
Craig Kielburger
Craig doing a presentation
On the evening of April 16th, 1995, the Pakistani boy Iqbal Masih, who fights against child labour, is out on a bike with two relatives. Iqbal sits at the front of the bike. Suddenly there is a shot. And another. Iqbal lies dead on the ground. The message of the death of this young former debt slave spreads all over the world…

In Toronto, Canada, 12-year-old Craig
Kielburger reaches for the newspaper on the breakfast table. He has no idea that today’s
paper contains something which will change
his life forever...

> Meet Craig

Test your knowledge of the prize candidates 2006
Read the texts about the laureates 2006 and the children they help. Then try the quiz to see what you have learnt.
> Start the quiz

Why have Craig been awarded?
Craig Kielburger received The World's Children's Prize 2006 because he has fought for ten years to free children from poverty and other violations of the rights of the child. But he also wants to empower children to feel that they can contribute to a better world for children. Craig founded Free The Children (FTC) in 1995, when he was 12. Since then, FTC has built more than 400 schools for 35,000 pupils in 21 countries, and sent 200,000 packages with materials for healthcare and schools, as well as medical equipment worth 9 million US dollars. FTC has given gifts of cows, goats, sewing machines or land to 20,000 women, so that they can earn money and their children don’t have to work. FTC has also provided 123,000 people with clean water. The children themselves have paid for most of this. Over 500,000 children and young people in 23 countries have learned, through FTC, to help other children, and that they have the right and the power to demand that the rights of the child are respected.
A cow
A cow can help
Free The Children gives poor families a cow, goat or pig...

> More about the animals
A Dolphin

The boy who made tuna fish ‘Dolphin-free’ and the girl who made school lunches environmentally friendly are Craig favourite stories about the power of children.

> Read Craig’s favourite stories
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Portait Mary
When Mary was nine her father, big brother and little sister were killed in Sierra Leone’s civil war.
> Meet Mary 
Portrait Medardo Jaya
It’s cold at night in the village of San Pablo in Ecuador. Medardo sleeps with his clothes on to keep warm and so that he won’t need any time to get dressed in the morning.
> Meet Medardo
Portrait Jenneh Cole
Cool hairstyles at Mary’s school!
“On Sunday afternoons my cousins and I braid each other’s hair. It takes two hours to do a hairstyle." says Mary.
> Cool hairstyles
View over Chimborazo
If you stand at the top of Chimborazo you are as far from the centre of the earth as you can ever get! And at the top of the mountain lives a monster…
> More about Chimborazo
Portait Nandini

When Nandini’s mother and aunt became ill her father borrowed money to buy medicine.
> Meet Nandini

Learn more about Craig and Free The Children: www.freethechildren.com
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