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Craig Kielburger: ‘The world needs your kid’

November 5, 2009 · Filed Under Festivals in the News, News 

Joyce MacPhee, Epoch Times

Craig Kielburger says the world needs your kid. He should know. As youngsters, Craig and his brother Marc started an organization called Free the Children. The organization’s mission is to empower children in North America to help their peers around the world.

Fifteen years later, Free the Children is thriving and to date has built 500 schools and implemented more than 2,000 alternative income projects in 45 developing countries.

Kielburger, 27, spoke at the Ottawa International Writer’s Festival about a book he wrote with his brother Marc Kielburger and Ottawa Citizen journalist Shelley Page. The book is titled The World Needs Your Kid: How to Raise Children Who Care and Contribute

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