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Free The Children is an international charity and youth movement started in 1995 by children’s rights advocate Craig Kielburger when he was 12 years old. The organization is largely youth funded, based on the concept of ʺchildren helping children.ʺ It specializes in sustainable development and empowering youth in developed countries to become socially engaged.

Its goals are to ʺfree children from poverty and exploitation and free young people from the notion that they are powerless to affect positive change in the world.ʺ Today, Free The Children has built more than 650 schools and school rooms in developing regions worldwide.

Free The Children is the world’s largest network of children helping children through education, with more than one million youth involved in our innovative education and development programs in 45 countries.

Through domestic empowerment programs and leadership training, Free The Children inspires young people to develop as socially conscious global citizens and become agents of change for their peers around the world.

The organization has received the World’s Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child (also known as the Children’s Nobel Prize), the Human Rights Award from the World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations, and has formed successful partnerships with leading school boards and Oprah’s Angel Network.

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