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Direct linkSwerdlow, Linda Kantor – National Middle School Association (NJ3), 2006
In 1994, students from Broad Meadows Middle School met Iqbal Masih, a 12-year-old Pakistani activist who had been sold into bonded labor at age 4 and escaped at age 10. They were moved to take action, and started a letter-writing campaign protesting child labor. When they heard of Iqbal's death later that year, they decided to build a school in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Laborers, Child Labor
