by Lisa Cavazuti, Christine Romo, Cynthia McFadden and Rich Schapiro | Nov 19, 2019 | NBC News
TARANTA-BAS, Madagascar — A boy climbs out of a pit in the ground and shields his eyes from the sun. His hands and feet are covered in dust, his T-shirt and shorts covered in rips. The boy has spent the last several hours working inside the pit. Now above ground, he...
by Kailash Satyarthi | Nov 17, 2019 | YKA
My dear children, I am sorry. I am sorry we have deprived you of the happiness of celebrating you and your day. Your compassion, courage and commitment for other children, is the shining sun above the dense and dark clouds. Yet, I was happy and proud to learn that on...
by Gurvinder Singh | Oct 22, 2019 | Mongabay
Broken nails are possibly the least of all the horrors of mica scavenging in and around abandoned mines in the eastern Indian province of Jharkhand. Exploitative child labour, death by suffocation in mining shafts, severe health hazards such as tuberculosis for the...
by Aprajita | Oct 18, 2019 | YKA
Exactly five years ago on October 10, 2014 came an important announcement that the Nobel Peace Prize for that year had been awarded to Kailash Satyarthi. Even Google servers were choked as people across the world were frantically searching for him on the internet. A...
by Kailash Satyarthi’s Children Foundation | Oct 17, 2019 | The Statesmen
Bal Mitra Gram (BMG), a path-breaking concept introduced by Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation, is a village where all the children are free from exploitation and are going to schools to pursue education. The most important and integral part of this concept is...
