“Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.”

Kailash Satyarthi is a Noble Prize winner, social activist, and advocate of children’s human rights. In 2014, he won the Nobel Peace Prize (shared with Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani advocate for female education) for his efforts against child labor and suppression of their rights. His vision is to make every child safe and educated in India by 2047. Born in 1954 in a Brahmin family in Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, he pursued electrical engineering in the same town.

In 1977, he moved to New Delhi to work as a publisher in literature. He gave up his high-caste surname, Sharma, and took up the surname Satyarthi, which reflects the meaning “seeker of the truth”. Besides, he is also the founder of Save the Childhood Movement (BBA) along with multiple organizations that work for children’s rights. He even started GoodWeave International, a nonprofit organization that was the first certification system that manufactured rugs without the use of child labor. He believes child labor is the source of oppression, poverty, illiteracy, and other socio-economic evils. In 2015, he achieved success in including child welfare issues as one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN.

“I dream for a world which is free of child labor, a world in which every child goes to school. A world in which every child gets his rights.”

We need such gems for the overall progress of our society and to come together for the future of our children. We hope his noble vision of seeing every child free with their rights protected, comes true. His passion and zeal for achieving an end to child slavery are unmatched. Currently, he is also working for an international law that addresses the evil of digital forms of child sexual abuse and exploitation.

“I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.”

Birth Score – 4/5
Pride Score – 5/5
A super-impressive 9/10 Notable Brahmin Score.