But whoever he was murdered by, it doesn't matter. So, inspired by this, you spoke about it in school and launched an organization. I began doing research on the issue and then took what I knew and went to my class. From there it began to expand. Free the Children started as a group of 20 kids in Thornhill, a suburb of Toronto.
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. In Pakistan, for example, consumer pressure resulted in the Government raising the amount they spent on primary education from one per cent of the national budget to nearly three per cent, and building more than a thousand literacy centres. 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.