Nobel Laureates and Their Impact: Kailash

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Kailash Satyarthi began his crusade for children's rights over 30 years ago by raiding Indian manufacturing plants that condoned bonded labor and the use of child workers. In 1980 Styarthi created the Bachpan Bachao Andolan or Save the Childhood Movement, an organization that rescues children from trafficking and modern-day slavery, returns them to society and provides them with education options. The group also seeks to end child labor through limiting the purchase of products made by these bonded children. Similarly this activist has also founded RugMark which encourages the purchase of carpets made in factories that are sans child labor. Satyarthi is also a founding member of the Global March Against Child Labor which spans 103 counties. His impact on his homeland of Indian is evident in the work of the BBA which has produced an estimated 317 Bil Mitra Gram, or child-friendly villages, that prohibit child labor and child marriage and allow women and teens to take part in the governance of the community.
 Less than a week ago, Kailash Satyarthi was awarded one of two Nobel Peace Prizes. Satyarthi spoke on his achievement “It was a passion from my childhood to work for children...I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labor. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.”

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Kailash Satyarthi's Crusade to Save Childhood
Kailash Satyarthi's Child-friendly Villages