Carly Risom Reporter On Sunday May 19 at 1:00 p.m., the annual “Water Walk,” organized by the Free the Children club, took place in Waveny
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Free the Children
Liza Swindell
President of Free the Children Club- New Canaan Chapter
When Craig Kielburger was just 12 years old, he stumbled across an article in the newspaper that told the story of Iqbal Masih. Iqbal, like Craig, was just 12 years old, however his young life was one plagued with slavery and child labor. Craig was inspired when Iqbal spoke out against child labor and learned that such a little voice had the power to make a great change.
NCHS Free the Children Water Walk this Sunday
Taylor du Pont
Associate Media Editor
The charity driven and education promoting organization, Free the Children strives to empower youths to free the Earth’s population of the cycle of poverty. Locally, Free the Children clubs have been organized as schools such as NCHS, Saxe Middle sChool, South School and Saint Lukes.
Free the Children members carry water back to the village in Kenya. Photo Contributed by Abbie Stone
“The goal of free the children is to empower youth to change the world,” junior Liza Swindell said. “They work 50% locally and 50% globally to help with such things as sustainable development, health care and education.”
A limited press limits world view
Elizabeth Kilbride
Opinions Editor
What I remember of Nairobi is highway from the airport where guards were stationed with guns that had been painted gold, so they’d be obvious even at night. The image I have of the rest of the country is the soft red dirt and a lot of sky, with bushes sticking out in odd tufts along the creases of the land.