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[sil.] This is the camera
mike at this distance.

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This is the camera mike at this distance.

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This is low at the bottom’s
possible distances at this point.

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This is loud.

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[music]

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When Craig Kielburger was only 12,

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he decided to take a
seven-week trip to South Asia.

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It was a journey that would have important
consequences for the rest of his life.

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He went with 25-year-old Alam
Rahman his friend and guide.

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They took a camcorder and made a record of all their
experiences to bring to Canada to show other children.

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Craig is 15 now.

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This is the story of his life so far.
The only time I was actually nervous on

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the trip was that one second when I
said, ‘Oh God! What am I doing here?

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I’m 12 years old and I’ve never taken the
subway by myself.\" But after that I loved it.

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Craig had become concerned about child labor
through reading about it back in Canada.

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Now he wanted to find out
everything he could firsthand.

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I had a million questions.

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I could have held a child there for hours and just
ask them question after… question after question.

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I… I wanted to know what was like working in the conditions.
How they felt having to get up each morning knowing

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that this was what they were going to do?
What their dreams were for the future?

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I wanted to put myself
in their life for a day

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and to learn exactly what went through
their brain, exactly what they thought

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and exactly what they hoped
and exactly what the feel it.

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[sil.]

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Does she ever cut herself?
Yeah, sometimes… sometimes.

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She sometimes cuts herself.
It’s quite dangerous

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if you prick yourself with this
might have somebody disease likely.

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Those needles she was sorting through.
What are they used for?

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What… what are those needles used for
before? What were they used for?

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Is… is she ever worried about the spread of viruses like AIDS?
Because she said she had cut herself before (inaudible)?

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[music]

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Today, I would like to talk to you about a problem that many
of us have, baby brothers. One day, I made a big mistake.

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I asked for mom and dad for a baby brother.

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Well, it’s too bad, we don’t have Craig
sleeping. We would make a nice family picture.

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My parents were both teachers as soon as
they could they shift me off to school.

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I used to go part-time and the rest
of the day I would do things like

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watch my favorite TV show at that
point which was (inaudible).

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I had the largest collection
of comics I think possible.

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I shouldn’t have comic heroes (inaudible).

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When I was growing up I think the only hero
which I really had was my older brother.

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[music]

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The time that it really hit me

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how different my life was compared to the
lives of these children was the Brick Kiln.

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The children here told Craig
how they had been released

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by their poverty stricken parents as collateral,
as bonded laborers working to repay the loans.

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They are forced to live here earning a pittance,
the bosses add the cost of food and board,

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so the debt is never repaid that
passed on from parent to child.

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[non-English narration]

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Can you ask him his age?

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Was he born on the compound
in the brick kiln?

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Has he ever gone to school?

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[music]

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The children in the brick kiln were the
children who I think moved me the most.

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These children knew, the
children as young as five, six

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and seven years old knew that for the rest of their
lives, they’ll be working here in the brick kiln.

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That they knew that the generation to
generation the step would be kiln.

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That even the day which
they die, they would live

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and they would work on this brick kiln.

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How many hours does he work a day? Twelve hours a day. Twelve hours a day. I couldn’t
promise him that I would put him in my suitcase and take him back to Canada.

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I couldn’t promise him a better life.

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But the one thing that I can promise the children
who I meet with is that I will take their stories

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and I will tell them to anyone who is willing to
listen. He does not know what a school is at all? No.

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Has he ever been off the brick kiln?

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No, he has not been outside.

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[music]

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Craig (inaudible). When I was five years old not only did
I had no idea that children my age didn’t go to school.

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Is that your new suit? I had no idea that
there was a world outside my neighborhood.

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Pocket here. This pocket, I can use it.

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No. At that age, you assume

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everyone is exactly the same as you are.
There are people who live in another city

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what’s it like, how much it’s strange and
another country halfway around the world.

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[non-English narration]

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Kailash Satyarthi is the chairman of the
South Asian Coalition and Child Servitude,

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SACCS. One of SACCS rules

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is to organize raids to
free children from bondage.

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Often children are working in factories under almost
inhumane conditions that rival those of slavery.

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[sil.]

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Very few people are willing to
conduct raids on these factories

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because the carpet mafia is notorious for
its violence. Two of Kailash’s colleagues

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have been killed while
conducting raids on factories.

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I was not able to attend the raid because I was white and
therefore I would draw too much attention to the crowd.

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[music]

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Many other children have
been held as virtual slaves

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away from their families,
friends and childhood.

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Many of the children have been given by
their parents used as collateral for loans.

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Others had never even received
a penny for their labor.

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So how did you (inaudible).

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So what’s the master plan now? The children have been
freed and we want to reunite them with their parents.

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But the village quite far away?

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[music]

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In many ways, my brother Marc is
the reason why I got involved

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and, you know, like it haven’t.

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[music]

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When he was younger, he was involved in environmental
issues and I still remember now he’s eight years old

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going to a school and give me a petition. He’d explain
it all to me and I have to repeat what he said.

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He was the first one that opened
my eyes to human rights issues.

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[music]

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The children that Kailash
rescued were going home.

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They seem traumatized and anxious
to be reunited with their families

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who they hadn’t seen for three years. Families who have
been tricked into sending their children into bondage.

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They describe the abuse they faced.
How when they made a simple error,

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they will be humiliated and beaten.

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And the (inaudible) ride
back to the village.

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Drive back to the village.

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They are supposed to take a
train that didn’t work out.

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[music]

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[music]

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By the time we arrived
at Munilal’s village,

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it was already dark.

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So now we’re in the Village of Ramata.

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These are the villages which don’t
have any light, no electricity at all.

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Many of them have never seen a tube
light or a bulb in their life.

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There is no question of telephone. Most
of them have no idea of telephones.

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Most of them have never been to any hospital. There is no
hospital. There is no approach road. There is nothing.

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Even though it was sad saying goodbye to Munilal, a new friend,
I was happy to again see him with his parents and his siblings

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in the embrace of his mother.
Through their desperate poverty,

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they had been forced to send him into a life of slavery but
they knew now they would never again make that mistake.

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[non-English narration]

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Seeing children freed from bondage

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was very important for Craig. His reason
for coming to India in the first place

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had been reading an article in a Toronto newspaper
about the murder of another freed carpet worker

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who had been speaking out. Iqbal Masih was 12
when he was killed, the same age as Craig.

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A young boy from Pakistan named Iqbal Masih

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told the world how at the age of four,

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he was sold into slavery for less than $16.

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Inspired by Iqbal Masih, Craig had started speaking
out about child labor even before he went to India.

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With a group of friends, he founded an
organization called Free the Children.

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It is a youth group dedicated to
the elimination of child labor

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and the exploitation of children. You may be
thinking, ‘Well, you’re only 12 years old.

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This is a big problem.
What can you do to help?’

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First, I would like to say, being
12 years old is no excuse.

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No one has a good enough excuse for
ignoring these child workers problems.

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[sil.]

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We also have a fundraising campaigning in which we
are trying to raise $10,000 for these children.

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Who will help the children if we don’t?

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Thank you very much.

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[sil.]

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The board, this board has offered,

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we’ll donate $5,000 to your cause
right off the top. Thanks very much.

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Thank you very much. Thank you very much.

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(inaudible), we’ll match
the $5,000 (inaudible).

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The little shock is an understatement there. I honestly thought
that I was going to faint. I… I’m not joking. I honestly did.

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Let’s let the bidding begin.

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[music]

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[non-English narration]

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I wonder if any of the children that
were we dropped off a couple of days ago

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have arrived here yet. After
they’ve met their families again,

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the rescued bonded laborers come here for
up to six month of vocational training

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and psychological counseling. The
training gives them a chance at a future.

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So he’s that unfortunate boy

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who has been branded with red
hot iron rods by his master

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on first of November’s night because
he helped freeing his younger brother

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and umm… another friend of him.

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He was caught. His hands and
legs were bound with rope

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and uh… branded with red hot
iron rods at several places

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that you can see, also on the neck.

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He was in such a severe trauma.

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He was not speaking a single word.
Not crying,

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not smiling, no emotions, no feelings.
But only after three weeks

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of continuous psychotherapy,
he was able to speak.

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What was his first word?

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Uh… First word, he started, somebody… somebody saw that he’s
singing a song sitting… sitting here in the middle of there.

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Could he sing a song? Yeah.

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Yeah.

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[music]

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Amid the splendor of the presidential palace,
Jean Chretien was officially welcomed to India

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and he quickly stepped on the… Foreign
business is attracted by cheap labor.

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Craig wanted to take Canadian Prime
Minister Jean Chretien to the street

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to talk to a child who
has to work to survive.

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But the Prime Minister’s office said he
was too busy with important meetings.

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So Craig decided to hold
his own press conference.

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Well, I thought the child labors more (inaudible) off in the
dark factories and the police just basically didn’t have

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umm… the will, the political
will wasn’t there to go seek

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and rescue the children, but for example
in Nepal, I found that basically,

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it’s quite openly practiced as in when I
was going to see one of the NGO schools

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uh… just driving down the street, you could
see the children working as a street vendors.

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You could see the children making
bricks by the side of the road.

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You could see the children working as tempo
helpers, which is actually a type of taxi.

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The children hang on to the back uh… to collect the money
from the people and often fall off and get run over.

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This is a (inaudible) interview
on the show called Politics

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and the other interviews
that will be coming up

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and we are just typing up for the press
conference and this is gonna be (inaudible).

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Okay. By the way that means yes. Shaking
the head like that. Like this, right.

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That means yes, that means
no and that means okay.

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Okay. What does this mean?

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This means yes.

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Okay. (inaudible) conditions that end child
labor, to end the exploitation of child.

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What do you want our governments to do?

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What do we want the businesses to do? What do
we want ourselves to do? What do you want to?

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I call for the total boycott of
buying goods made by child labor

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like carpet, garment etc. I also appeal
to you to look for Rugmark label

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which guarantees that adult labor is
employed in making these carpets.

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I also urge the Prime Minister of India

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to seriously look into child labor
problem and use his good officers

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for total elimination of child labor.

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The worst type of child servitude is
bondage. When a child is sold into slavery,

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the child is shackled in chain in
many cases, cannot see his parents

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and he’s forced to work long hours
in unsafe working conditions

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for little or no pay. Craig,
if I can just ask a question.

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Obviously, it’s a cause that no one can question.
Are you certain you’re not being exploited

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by adults in any way that you
run this campaign? Actually,

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I’m the founder of the organization Free the
Children, so I’ve done it totally on my own will

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and it’s a completely youth run organization. So
there are no other adults who have political means

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behind the lines trying to press us.
So what do you want to say to

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uh… Prime Minister (inaudible) tonight? Basically…
basically, I want him at least to raise the issue.

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Forget being a prime minister for a second.
Just simply as a Canadian,

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it’s his moral responsibility to do this. Have
you tried to reach your prime minister? Yes.

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Uh… Did you meet him? I’ve faxed and written to
the Prime Minister requesting to meet with him

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and fortunately, he said, his schedule was too
booked and he did not have time to meet with me.

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[music]

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We’ve just finished our meeting with the
PM. Yeah. Uh… I got most of my points.

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He says, ‘Well, it’s a very complex
issue and things like this take time

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and well, we donate to the
(inaudible) and we do quite a bit

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and we do this and that we do that. Umm… What
Canada does and I’m very happy that he does that.

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But there is still much
more that Canada has to do.

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[music]

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So far ranking this trip in nine. This trip
has been really great and I enjoyed it a lot.

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And meeting the Prime
Minister was not bad either.

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The upstage, the prime minister,

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during (inaudible) counters trade trip and catapulted
the issue of child labor under the national agenda.

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While today, a 13-year-old Craig Kielburger came
back to Canada saying his fight is far from over.

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Craig Kielburger arrived
back home after his fight…

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(inaudible) not only my friends and
families waiting for me but also the press.

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In a sad sort of way, it dawned on me

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that so often the press thought the young people
weren’t capable of doing this type of things

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and I think that being young
did give us the advantage.

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… Tour of South Asia. He went with one objective
and even he is surprised by his success.

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Well, there is no question to ask that one of the reasons
why the media was obviously interested in Free the Children

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was because it was
children helping children

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and, you know, to them this was a phenomenon. This was
strange that children would care enough to get involved

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and they didn’t realize that, you know, children actually
deep inside wanted to help and wanted to participate.

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There is a reason Craig Kielburger
is trying to find his way through

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the corridors of congress in his fight to shutdown
Third World sweatshops full of child labor,

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these are the corridors of U.S. power.

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You have the power in your words, in
your actions and in your policymaking.

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There is never a single point where it dawned
on me the press was an important tool.

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I think it was something that we begin to realize
Free the Children evolved from simply being a

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(inaudible) group in Toronto to a group
of young people around the world.

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He’s been essential. I mean, there’ve been a lot of adults who are
also well informed and gone and seen things firsthand and whatever

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uh… and they have not been able to

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uh… draw the uh… the attention and
appeal that… that… that he has.

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Now Kielburger is helping set up American chapter of his organization,
working to establish labels for products not made by child labor.

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It’s a very, very powerful

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uh… vehicle that you’re uh…
that you’re creating here

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uh… if in fact you can… you can move children
uh… in this direction to take action.

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The youth group Free the Children says
the Canadian government is undecided

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about whether to endorse the Rugmark label which ensures the factory
inspection that child labor is not used in imported carpets.

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So today, they held a press conference to
introduce the label to Canada themselves.

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Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen.

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This is Zachary and I’m Daniel from (inaudible) Public School.
Today, we’d like to inform you about what Rugmark is.

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Rugmark is an internationally

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recognized trademark that is out to make people
aware of which rugs are made with child labor.

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In the long run, it is also out to
eliminate child labor altogether.

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Whenever you buy a carpet,

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you are also making a symbol, you’re making
a symbol that you do not want children

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to be exploited that you care about the children of the world and
you are willing to stand up and ensure they have their rights.

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We’re kids.

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We don’t have voting rights.
We have very little rights.

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We’re doing something that the adults
should be doing to begin with.

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Yeah, they should just think about this thing. They’re kids.
They can’t vote. They can’t do half the things that they can.

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But yet they are still putting in this effort to ends horrible
things. Why can’t the adults do that with all the rights they have.

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They are not using them the right way. Yeah,
you know, you can take Craig as an example.

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He’s only like 13, 14 years
old and look what he’s done.

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[music]

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I’m here to (inaudible). This is actually (inaudible)
and I see (inaudible) back to the world.

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The basic reason why
children are being hired is

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because they’re easily intimidated. They cannot
organize trade unions and they are cheaper labor.

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What we have to do is take these children to the
government who will place them with adult relatives,

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pay the adults decent wages,
safe working conditions,

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so that the children in turn can go to
school, breaking the cycle of poverty.

00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:25.000
That still becomes down to (inaudible)
political will (inaudible).

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It’s craft line, cutting a meter of
sugarcane, they receive only one cent.

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So often eventually in the world, we see children who
do not work but at this point, they have to work

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to help their family in many cases survive.
Child labor, a child abuse cannot be tolerated.

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If it’s cross that line,
if it becomes exploitation

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and if it becomes abuse,
it must be stopped.

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In 1990, leaders from around
the world gathered together

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and they drew up the United
Nations Convention on the rights

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of the child which lists the
most basic rights of children

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including the right to an education,
the right to be protected

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from abuse and exploitation, the
right to be treated with dignity.

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Seven years have passed and yet

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this child abuse still continues.
These children

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have little faith in
politicians and fancy laws

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and convention drawn up on their behalf.
As children, we simply do not want to be

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the passive recipients of kindness.
There are sometimes with me

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that I do get a bit frustrated and sometimes
I would just like to kind of go off

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and do my own thing and just meet the kids. So then have any of their
friends ever been seriously hurt by the police or even killed?

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But I do realize that, you know,

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for every speech I give, I can
reach a 100, 200, 1,000 people

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or through the media, we can reach
enormous numbers of people.

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You were shot something by the
police you think or by who?

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The first concrete result we have is
working with the law, you mentioned.

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This law was passed in Canada
and 11 other countries.

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But here in Italy, this law does not
exist and when I met with the senators,

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this is one of the points that I wanted
to bring up to try to bring it here also.

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What the Italian citizens have to say.
They will definitely look into it

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and I hope that means that when they look into it,
they’ll definitely ensure that it comes to it.

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[music]

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If no change was coming about or if I
was not doing this for a good issue,

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would I continue to do this? No.

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I am doing this for an issue which I love. And I’m
doing this for an issue which I care strongly about

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and that’s the reason why I do, that’s
what makes it all so important.

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As long as the media present the facts
this way, as long as they act responsibly

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then… then I think the media is doing a wonderful job and they will
present the issue and that will challenge people to take action.

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[music]

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How much are you paid per day
on average working here?

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We at Free the Children are
receiving thousands of letters

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from children around the world saying,
tell me what I can do to get involved.

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I want to help to change the world.

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What we have to do is take that money and invest
in education, invest it in job training skills,

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to help these street children. Okay, everybody knows that.
But nobody does nothing here… Question of taking steps.

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[music]

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Meeting this children, I
learnt from that, you know,

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that’s… that’s their gift to me and then in
turn going to the media and taking their voice

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and… and repeating what they say acting as a funnel
what… for what they say, that’s what my gift to them.

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[music]

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I want to be able to give them something
and I can’t always promise them

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we’ll create a project in the neighborhood, I can’t always promise them that their
government will bring about a change, but least a little thing which I can do.

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[music]

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You’re holding us over the past two years and
have the opportunity to meet children who work

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and exploited in abusive conditions. How can these children
grow up to be peaceful when all they’ve ever known is violence?

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Thank you very much.

00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:34.999
Thank you… thank you. Can we have a quick
photo, your highness? Thank you, sir.

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[music]

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If you had healthcare and
if you had education

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(inaudible) wouldn’t be different.

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There would be different
for everyone in Brazil.

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[music]

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I think some adults are
threatened by people like Craig.

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Let’s get our plan ready for today and
while you do that I’ll read announcements.

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Craig has brought to light an
issue that society in general

00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:44.999
has chosen to sweep under the rug. For
some people when they are involved in…

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in an indirect way like some of the major
manufacturers and other interested groups,

00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:54.999
it’s embarrassing for them and… and I guess they’d rather not
have somebody like Craig expose some of the things that…

00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:59.999
that have been going on. I sometimes feel

00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:04.999
a bit sorry for Craig because he has
many things going on at the same time.

00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:09.999
He does a wonderful job of balancing all of
them, but there are so many things going on.

00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:14.999
[sil.]

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It’s a normal household
and at the same time not

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every household has 50 young people
running through it for a barbecue

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and preparing for a conference dealing
with the elimination of child labor.

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So it’s the normal household where you have
the fun, the… the studying for homework,

00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:39.999
the young people coming for pizza parties, at the
same time you have the other side of it where it’s…

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it’s an office. It’s where Free the Children is run.
So, you know, it’s a… it’s a whole family effort

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and because of that everyone loves what they do
and everyone believes in what they’re doing.

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Good morning. Free the Children! Laura, how
are you? It’s Marc Kielburger speaking.

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[music]

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I’m Fred, Craig’s dad and at the moment,

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I’m providing moral support. I pickup, I held out I do
whatever have to be done. I guess that’s essentially it.

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You know, we can be very cynical

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and think the world is a mess. But on the other
hand, young people who have that idealism

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and who are not cynical as
we tend to become in life,

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they then can rally their peers, their people
of their own age to take a hand then in…

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in trying to change the
world for the better.

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[music]

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There are some people out there who simply look at Free
the Children (inaudible), they still won’t do anything.

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You know, it’s just a bunch of young people. They’ll… they’ll
change and move into a next phase in a matter of few weeks.

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And the funny thing is, you know, two
years later we’re stronger than ever.

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Last week, we got over 500 letters
from the United States alone.

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Never mind, you know, those letters from Poland,
and Chili and, Hong Kong and Singapore.

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How did you get started in it? Well,
I knew about it my older sister

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who was in it the year before I started
and when I… My school, they started it

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and they asked if we would like to be part of
it. Craig came and he spoke just to our class.

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There is more of like a discussion almost and everybody like, everybody really
liked what he was saying and nobody wanted to give up their time to do it.

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I think, it’s been really hard to
do like fundraising and things.

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You think like each thing will take
you a day, so you plan many things.

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But in actual fact they take like a week to plan and then you
want to keep it going. Yeah, we had big sales that have gone on

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and those who’ve really helped because people
who just volunteer and bring in their goods

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and then those will sell really quickly.
We had, if you brought in a (inaudible),

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you can get a Free Jeans Day and
we raise like $2,000 (inaudible).

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Of course, we are children and we don’t have
all the answers and we are trying to learn.

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And the only way that we
can gain credibility is

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if we know the issue inside out.

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If we look into our own lives
and we ask the hard questions,

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look at our country’s policies. You
know, our trading policy is fair.

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Why are these multinational corporations
going into developing countries

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and paying wages that these people can’t even survive
on. They have to send their children out to labor.

00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:18.000
[sil.]

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Why does the World Bank and the International
Monetary Fund bodies which are controlled

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by the rich countries force
industrializing in poor countries

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to cut through social services to the absolute
bone, to cut money away from the education

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and healthcare of children.

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It’s because of our decisions. Our
decisions here in the North also.

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A few weeks later Craig
was able to get away

00:39:55.000 --> 00:39:59.999
from the glare of the spotlight for once and back
to what he considers his most important work,

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continuing the research through meeting
with exploited children in the Philippines.

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For once, there were no speaking engagements and
the press didn’t even know of his extended visit.

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You know, I’m always amazed if a
lot of reporters will ask me,

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’Okay, you know, how many (inaudible) or how many people have
you met that have over a billion dollars worth of assets?

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I… I don’t know. No one
really cares actually.

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No matter what I prefer
meeting with children.

00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:44.999
Craig has come to learn more about
children who are forced to work selling

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their bodies in order to survive.
Father Shay Cullen

00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:54.999
is an Irish priest who runs a center in Olongapo called
PREDA which helps girls rescued from the sex trade.

00:40:55.000 --> 00:40:59.999
[non-English narration]

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The reason, I love meeting with the children
so much is because what they stand for

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and how amazing they truly are. You know, just look at the girls
at PREDA, how they’ve been able to overcome their problems.

00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:19.999
The Philippines has become a
center of child sex tourism

00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:24.999
and many… many foreigners do come here to
seek out minors and to sexually abuse them.

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The poverty, it makes the children vulnerable.
They know that the police are very lax.

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They know the prosecution can
be bribed if they are caught

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and they do things here they would
never do in their own countries.

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The majority of children who we find
coming from the commercial sex industry

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or even in child labor situations,
95% are coming from the rural area.

00:41:50.000 --> 00:41:54.999
There is no land reform. The
people don’t own their land.

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They cannot produce enough food even to feed themselves
anymore. They have a landlord who takes away maybe

00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:04.999
30%, 40% of what they produce. They’re
in poverty and they’re hungry.

00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:09.999
They can’t go to school. So they have some
in the slums in Manila and go to the slums.

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And from the slums on the street and
the pimps are there to pick them up.

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[music]

00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:24.999
Father Shay conducted undercover operations himself
to rescue children. He poses as a pedophile

00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:29.999
and he has a hidden camera to collect evidence
for the police who work alongside him.

00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:34.999
He asked Craig to come
along and see for himself.

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So see the evil world and we’re just
trying to come to grips with it

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and uh… hopefully in the end, we know.

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I regret having to do it and quite disgusted when I hear what
these people are doing, offering these children for sale.

00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:54.999
Being sold like vegetables in the market,
trying to bargain the best price

00:42:55.000 --> 00:43:00.000
they can get to sell these
children as sex workers.

00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:09.999
It was a quite a bit of a surprise actually

00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:14.999
when father Shay mentioned that I would be
able to participate in a raid firsthand.

00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:19.999
Yeah, so what’s your name? He
disguise himself as a pedophile

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and negotiates over the price of a child. I
think father, he’s a pretty amazing person.

00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:29.999
[sil.]

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I’ll never forget talking to those two girls about
their life and what forced them into the sex trade

00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:39.999
and just waiting for the police to rush in.
I never was really scared

00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:44.999
because all I had to do was simply go to
the McDonald if anything got out of hand.

00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:49.999
The person who really had
to worry was father Shay

00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:54.999
because he was sitting amongst the pimps
and negotiating the price of two girls.

00:43:55.000 --> 00:44:00.000
All they had to do was simply draw a
gun because he was at their mercy.

00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:24.999
All goes according to plan. The police
will be standing off in their vehicle.

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When we more or less reached the deal,

00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:35.000
then the children will leave to
go into one of the vehicles.

00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:44.999
When the children are safe, then we will give
the signal and then the police simply move in.

00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:53.000
[non-English narration]

00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:15.000
I managed to make it to the van with
the girls. They were very frightened.

00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:49.999
You know, those pimps,
they just couldn’t care.

00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:54.999
This guy was telling me, father, I’m sorry, it won’t
happen. You know, he said, I’ve got six children.

00:46:55.000 --> 00:46:59.999
You know, I said to him yesterday, he said, ‘You
know, would it be okay for you if somebody got…’

00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:04.999
Your child exactly.

00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:09.999
Exactly, yeah. And he say no… no, I wouldn’t but you would
do to these other kids, so he had no answer to that.

00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:14.999
Oh, it’s great to just (inaudible)
because at least, you take that

00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:19.999
and definitely get a conviction. Well, yeah,
I think these guys deserve to go to jail

00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:24.999
and I have to get them out of circulation.
No question… No question at all.

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[music]

00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:39.999
So could you explain what’s
on these two boards?

00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:44.999
Back at the center, Father Shay asked Marlin
Capio(ph.) who had been taken by foreigners to Germany

00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:49.999
and forced to work there as a sex slave
to show Craig PREDA’s Wall of Shame.

00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:58.000
[music]

00:48:05.000 --> 00:48:09.999
And this also he’s from British.
From… from oh, from Britain.

00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:14.999
Yes. And this is the two children,
the victim of the (inaudible).

00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:19.999
And uh… this, this one is…

00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:24.999
I think Marlin is an example of how
strong some of these children really are.

00:48:25.000 --> 00:48:29.999
You know, imagine this as a girl who
ended up being forced into prostitution

00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:34.999
on the streets in an early age and ended up being
a prisoner in Germany forced to take customers

00:48:35.000 --> 00:48:39.999
and through all this, she still has strength
to testify against her accused in court.

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She still has the strength to rebuild her life. She
still has the strength to now hope for the future.

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[non-English narration]

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A few seconds later, Marlin
was on floor crying.

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It seems so strange how all of a sudden
this came to be this… this shift.

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And the memories of the past come back.

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It’s like they’re having a terrible wound

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and that the poison is still inside the wound. It
has to be lanced, you know, the skeptic poison

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is coming out of the wound and it’s
only then healing takes place.

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[sil.]

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I understand, it’s all part
of the rehabilitation process

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and it’s all part of the therapy process. But, you know, as I sat there,
it was very saddening, that the scene, you know, they’ve come so far.

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You know, even some of the children that
have been there a year, two, three years

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even and still they… they still
breakdown and they are still like that,

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they are still crying.

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And, you know, for myself,

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it was… it was very sobering and it
was… it was also very painful to watch.

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And umm… it’s something which certainly
will stay with me for a long time.

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[non-English narration]

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[music]

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Going to the garbage dump. What we saw there
were children who are spending their entire life

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rummaging through bodily mountains of trash
and searching through the… the scrap metal

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and the garbage from the medical waste and food, and…
and they’re searching, you know, for their livelihood.

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[music]

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It always does affect you. In some
cases, it affects you in different ways.

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Some cases, it angers you
(inaudible) go to the top of a roof

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and… and shout. And that’s
what everybody here working?

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In some cases, it just
makes you wanna breakdown

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because you can become as
angry as you want to be.

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You become as frustrated as you want to be and you can cry until you
can’t cry any longer, you know, what? What change the situation?

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[music]

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And how much does he make
at the end of the day

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when he sold everything that he’s ranged?
How much do you make, Jeffrey?

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[music]

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They do not want to be seen as one
little creatures who need help,

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they don’t want (inaudible). You
took time out of their life

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and you have to give them something in return. And
the only gift which you can give them in return

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is taking action on your own way and I’m going back to Canada. In
my case, going back and bringing it back to (inaudible) children

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and challenge while the members (inaudible) or whether
it would be taking action in a different way.

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[music]

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Have you ever been off garbage dump? Have
you ever left the area the compound?

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[non-English narration]

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Not yet. Not yet.

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Does he ever hope to leave this compound?

00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:54.999
[non-English narration]

00:53:55.000 --> 00:53:59.999
No.

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[music]

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You now, I traveled many countries around the world.
I’ve had the opportunity to met with hundreds

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of children who work on the streets or
who work in the brick kilns or who work

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in the sugarcane fields or who
work in the garbage dumps.

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And, you know, no matter how much I try and no matter how many hours I
suspend with them and no matter how many times go back to the homes

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or ask them about their life or
about ask them about their family.

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I… I never really will
understand the reality.

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[music]

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But I can at least try.

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There is a big need out there and you
know we’re not only talking about help

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with money or more projects.
Because a lot of those children,

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you know, no matter how much the search, you
know, they’ll be able to find their food,

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the minimum amount (inaudible) to survive. What they cannot
find through other searching and through other scavenging,

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there’s like they can’t find
love in a lot of cases.

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[music]