Age 14, Tamagawa Seigakuin, Teacher - Jason Kuiper

If I could change something in the world I would erase child labor.

I fist learned about child labor last year, when I read a book written by Craig Kielburger. Craig read a newspaper article about a boy who was the same age as him in India. This boy was a person of action for helping erase child labor, but tragically he was killed by someone. Craig was shocked by the news and started the organization “Free The Children” when he was twelve years old. When I read this book I realized that taking action is very important.

One day last June, I demonstrated with about one hundred other students. We walked from Harajuku to Shibuya and held placards, saying “No more child labor” or “Give education to every child.”

If we could erase child labor, we could help more than two hundred million children from the terrible environments they work in and we could also protect their rights to receive an equal education, If children can get a good education may of them could get a stable job. That is why I want to erase child labor. Then children in the world can be happier. I hope this will happen in the near future.