Craig Kielburger
Craig Kielburger

My own service started when I was 12, with the small charity I launched with 12 friends. Twenty years later, millions have joined our ranks - educators, business leaders and prominent Canadians.

Craig Kielburger
Craig Kielburger

I met children who want to be social workers, lawyers, doctors, community activists and soldiers so they can help their people rise above still difficult economic circumstances.

Craig Kielburger
Craig Kielburger

Sometimes it takes a child to raise a village - or to take down an injustice.

Craig Kielburger
Craig Kielburger

And in rural communities we've worked alongside, Haitians are doing far more than merely recovering from the earthquake. Many are creating long-term sustainable change.

Craig Kielburger
Craig Kielburger

Success to us is not just a girl overseas going to school - but also leading her village to a better future.

Craig Kielburger
Craig Kielburger

Despite the value to Canada, our country lags in competitiveness in the global social economy.

Craig Kielburger
Craig Kielburger

We learned that kicking down doors to free children from carpet factories isn't enough to stop child labour - we had to tackle the underlying poverty in which their families lived, through education.

Craig Kielburger
Craig Kielburger

There may never be another Madiba. But instead of waiting for the next Nelson Mandela to emerge, those whom he universally inspired are now looking to themselves and each other to build their own dream together.

Craig Kielburger
Craig Kielburger

The nature of education fundamentally has not changed in a century - and I say this as someone whose parents are both teachers.

Craig Kielburger
Craig Kielburger

We want to end poverty and protect our environment. But we think the most efficient way of achieving that is to change the way a generation of young people is educated. That's how you'll shift the world.

Craig Kielburger
Craig Kielburger

Most organizations see young people as problems to be solved. We see young people as problem-solvers.

Craig Kielburger
Craig Kielburger

When I was 12, I read about Iqbal Masih, a child slave who escaped the carpet factory where he'd been chained to a loom since the age of four. Iqbal led an anti-child labor crusade that made global headlines, including the one that first caught my attention.

Craig Kielburger
Craig Kielburger

I started calling anti-child labor organizations, asking how I could help. They told me a kid couldn't make any difference, so I decided to start a movement for young people to fight child labor, and to prove them wrong.

Craig Kielburger
Craig Kielburger

When you give a child the opportunity to learn, they always give back.

Craig Kielburger
Craig Kielburger

We've set up groups in schools across North America. They apply and receive a curriculum about different issues facing the world - from environment to health to sustainability. Then, the students take actions from fundraisers to awareness raisers, and some of them even go overseas and volunteer.

Craig Kielburger
Craig Kielburger

When you stand amid the unending vistas of Kenya's Maasai Mara, it's impossible to remain focused inward. Your mind expands to the distant horizons.

Craig Kielburger
Craig Kielburger

Distance and difference become irrelevant as our technology connects youth from Vancouver, Toronto, Iqaluit, Attawapiskat, Delhi, Nairobi - anywhere - to learn from and about each other.

Craig Kielburger
Craig Kielburger

The children of Qunu stood for hours on the side of a brand new stretch of highway as they waited for the hearse carrying Nelson Mandela to come into view.

Craig Kielburger
Craig Kielburger

In South Africa, there is only one name that every child knows, every leader invokes, and every grandparent tells their grandchildren about. Madiba.

Craig Kielburger
Craig Kielburger

But while Nelson Mandela's work is sadly done, his dream is unfinished.

Craig Kielburger
Craig Kielburger

People in the business world lament economic resources wasted on unsustainable development projects and what they see as activists' naive failure to grasp the importance of building strong economies.

Craig Kielburger
Craig Kielburger

While governments are not off the hook, the charity world needs to innovate and find new ways to attract outside investment to boost our social productivity.

Craig Kielburger
Craig Kielburger

We would love to see Canadian federal and provincial governments establish a new business entity class like the CIC or L3C for social enterprises. Our governments should also offer tax incentives to entice more entrepreneurs into the social economy, and encourage foundations and impact investors to put their capital into social enterprises.

Craig Kilborn
Craig Kilborn

A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone.

Craig Kilborn
Craig Kilborn

Broadcasting was something, I don't want to say it came easy, but it's something I'm comfortable doing.