This tells about the story of Nobel Peace Prize winner, Kailash Satyarthi and his contributions in eradicating problems of child labor. Hope this is helpful :)

1. KAILASH
SATYARTH
I
Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2014

2. Childhood & Early Life
■ Born on January 11, 1953 inVidhisa, a small town in Madhya Pradesh
■ Even as a child he was very compassionate and felt for the adversities faced by some
children who could not go to school and instead were forced to work under harsh
conditions.
■ At age of 11, he along with his friends, collected used books from his neighbourhood in
Vidisha and distributed them to children who needed them.
■ He studied electrical engineering in a Bhopal college and went on to earn a post-
graduate diploma in high-voltage engineering.
■ Started his career as an engineer and teacher.
■ Left job in 1980 to help poor people, especially the poor children who worked as
bonded laborers and founded the organisation BACHPAN BACHAOANDOLAN.

3. Milestones…
19891980 1998 19991994
• Bachpan Bachao Andolan
founded to fight against bonded
labour
• Launch of first social label –
Rugmark – for child labour-free
carpets (predecessor to
GoodWeave)
• International adoption of ILO
Convention No. 182 on worst
forms of child labour after tireless
campaigning
• Assembly of South Asian Coalition
on Child Servitude (SACCS) –
network of more than 750 civil
society organizations from India,
Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh
• Global March Against Child Labour
founded, spread across 103
countries demanding
international ban on child labour
2011 2014
• Supreme Court ban on child
labour in circuses in India after
years of continuous advocacy
• Nobel Peace Prize for
tirelessly working towards
eliminating child labour and
promoting education

4. CHANGEMAKER
Redefined Bonded Labor System in India, 1983
• The case ‘Bandhua Mukti Morcha vs Union of India’ ruling gave a new interpretation to the
constitutionally prohibited forced labor and bonded labor.
• Through this historic judgement, those who are denied minimum wages were brought under
the legal definition of forced labor and bonded labor.
Domestic Child Labor, 1999
• Satyarthi and his team liberated a 7-year old boy Ashraf from the residence of a senior
government official.This domestic servant was branded with a hot iron rod all over his body for
committing the mistake of drinking the leftover milk in a glass.
• Satyarthi took Ashraf personally before the Chairman of the National Human Rights
Commission (NHRC), and requested the Commission to not only do justice to the child but also
make a provision that prohibits government employees from employing child servants.
• After a long battle, the central government and over a dozen state governments agreed to
amend their Employees' Service rules.This has been a major breakthrough.

5. ILO Convention onWorst forms of Child Labor, 1999
• The Global March Against Child Labor had this as one of its key demands.
• The most critical issue was to convince the tripartite constituents to agree to include a provision
where civil society and children themselves are consulted in designing, implementing and
monitoring of the ILO Convention.
• Satyarthi led a sustained nationwide campaign to galvanize mass support to demand a change
in India's Constitution to make education a fundamental right. He was able to gather the
support of over 160 individual Parliament members from all major political parties in support of
the demand.
• A six-month long struggle 'ShikshaYatra' (Education March) was a huge effort in this regard.
• Eventually, the Constitution was amended by both houses of Parliament in the 2002 to make
Education a fundamental right bringing Child Labor on the Global Agenda in the late eighties
and early nineties.

6. BREAKING SOCIAL BARRIERS
Casting away Caste
Temple entry of Untouchables
SoshanmedhYagna atVaranasi

7. ■ Even as a 12 year old boy, the young Satyarthi used to
observe social problems and tried to find solutions to
the best of his ability and reach.
■ He used to observe that many of his school going
colleagues were forced to discontinue their studies due
to financial hurdles.
■ He had discovered that while going to higher grades
the students usually threw away their used books. A
novel idea propelled him to engage a hand-drawn cart
and started calling out for discarded books in his
hometown. He felt excited over his achievement of
collecting over 2000 books in one day.
■ This taught him a new lesson on how people's
participation could be brought in if a person has the
determination to solve a problem. Later, he and a few
friends set up a book bank which used to lend these
books to poor children and help them to pursue their
studies without economic burden on their parents.
■ After a few years, he also formed a youth group in his
town which used to generate petty funds by organizing
fetes, running teashops, polishing boots etc. during
various social occasions.The money raised was then
used to pay school fees for needy children
BOOK BANK FOR
POOR CHILDREN
A Social Entrepreneur

8. ■ Satyarthi has been instrumental in freeing thousands of child
slaves from numerous industries. He has evolved various
strategies and methods to secure freedom for the slave
children.These include direct action, secret raids, judicial
interventions, parental motivation, community mobilization,
persuading and pressurizing employers, etc. Hundreds of real
life stories of his liberation operations have motivated countless
people to join the fight against child labor.
■ He remembers with clarity the heartrending incident of 1982
from one of the first rescue operations. It was in March 1982
that the freed bonded girl Gulabo (14 years) breathed her last in
the lap of Satyarthi, crying out 'save me, save me, my mother'.
The girl had contracted tuberculosis while she was working at a
brick-kiln in a north Indian province. She was a slave like 32
others.
It was only after great difficulties and strenuous efforts that
Satyarthi and his associates had procured court orders for their
release. However, when they reached the site, the employer
had already driven the slave laborers away.The children were
later found deserted on the roadside. It was raining heavily and
Gulabo was running a high fever. But, Satyarthi could not reach
the hospital in time and the girl succumbed to the disease.
LIBERATING
THOUSANDS OF
CHILD SLAVES

9. ■ The concept of Bal Mitra Gram (BMG) is an approach
developed by satyarthi for total elimination of child
labor and enrolment of all children into schools in
target villages, through community participation and
empowerment of children and the local people.
Children of the villages then elect their representatives
into the Bal Panchayat (Children's Parliament), which
in turn is represented in theVillage Panchayat (Village
Governing Body).The children take up development
issues for the common benefit of the village at the
village panchayat meetings and jointly find solutions
to their problems. The broad guiding principles behind
this concept are parental persuasion, community
participation, teachers' motivation, children's
empowerment, the involvement of village Panchayats,
democratic values, gender sensitivity and equity, social
equity and justice, social harmony and awareness of
human security issues.
■ There are more than a 100 model bmgs in india today
and a process of replication has been initiated in other
countries.
BAL MITRA GRAM
(Child friendly
village)

10. thankyou…