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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.
We've found that service learning builds life skills, leadership and a sense of global citizenship that makes helping a lifelong habit.
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.
We've found that service learning builds life skills, leadership and a sense of global citizenship that makes helping a lifelong habit.