From there it started to expand. Free the Children started as a group of 20 kids in a suburb of Toronto, Canada. Now we have groups in Canada, the US, Australia, Brazil. We have young people involved in Singapore, we get calls from Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates, all around the world. The single biggest problem we've had is adults who will not take us seriously, who think that because we are young we will oversimplify the issue of child labour and not do our research.
Child labour is a very complex problem, that's the truth.
But that can't be used as an excuse not to take action. Consumer pressure can change things. Even companies are beginning to take action in response to the pressure. We're a group of young people who volunteer to give up some of their spare time to work on this issue. We're not against children working, we're against children being abused and exploited.