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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2013 - 2014
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | April 5, 2013 08:47 AM |
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| From: | Representative Stephen McCarter |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Co-sponsorship - Resolution Honoring the Free the Children Campaign |
| In the near future, I am planning to introduce a resolution honoring the Free the Children Campaign and this Commonwealth’s youth who are involved in this campaign. The Free the Children Campaign was begun in Canada by twelve-year-old Craig Kielburger, who read a newspaper article about the forced slavery and subsequent murder of a child in Pakistan. This article led to this youth researching injustice against children worldwide in 1995, which resulted in the creation of the Free the Children Campaign, the purpose of which is to inspire, empower and enable youth to be actively involved in helping to find effective solutions to numerous societal problems and issues around the world. Today, the Free the Children Campaign is an international charity and educational partner, working both domestically and internationally toward these noble goals. In pursuing these objectives, the campaign works as educational partners with school boards, schools, teachers, families and youth, providing an array of services that educate and engage young people to make a positive difference in the world. This involvement includes certain schools in this Commonwealth. Indeed, the campaign delivers innovative programming to more than 4,000 youth groups and hundreds of thousands of young people in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. Moreover, the organization works in 45 countries and has built more than 650 schools and school rooms in developing regions, providing education to more than 55,000 children every day. In addition, as a result of the campaign’s Adopt a Village program, more than one million people have been provided with clean water, health care and sanitation; 30,000 women are economically self-sufficient; and $16 million in medical supplies have been shipped around the world. The campaign has worked with several schools in Pennsylvania including the Welsh Valley Middle School in the Lower Merion School District in Montgomery County. Students and Teachers at Welsh Valley are raising money to support children’s programs throughout the world. |
Introduced as HR438