KWCS 60th Anniversary Event: Craig Kielburger

Join us for an evening with:

CRAIG KIELBURGER

“THE 3 C’S OF CHANGE: COMPASSION, CARING AND COMMUNITY”

Craig Kielburger is the 27 year-old founder and chair of Free The Children, a unique international development and youth empowerment organization. Founded in 1995, Free The Children has become the world’s leading youth-driven charity, inspiring an entire generation to stand up and have their voices heard.

With the involvement of more than a thousand Youth in Action Groups, Free The Children has built more than 500 schools throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America, providing daily education to more than 50,000 children. Through its Adopt a Village development model, it has established more than 23,500 alternative income projects to assist women and their families in achieving sustainable incomes.

One of Free The Children’s most notable projects has been a joint project with Oprah Winfrey’s Angel Network called O  Ambassadors. The project was designed to educate, engage and inspire more than one million young people across North America to take action to help their underprivileged peers
overseas.

Craig is also the Co-founder and Director of Me to We. It encourages ethical living and social responsibility, while also helping Free The Children achieve financial sustainability. The social enterprise, Me to We, includes international volunteer travel programs, a publishing house, a music label, leadership workshops, a speakers’ bureau and a clothing line. Me to We works with more than half a million people and some of the best-known companies in the world to make social change as easy as buying an organic fair trade T-shirt.

Craig has a degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Toronto and is the youngest-ever graduate of the Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA program. He has received six honorary doctorates for his work in the field of education and human rights.

Craig is one of the youngest recipients of The Order of Canada. Craig’s work has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, 60 Minutes and The Today Show, and in People, Time and The Economist.

PUBLISHED BOOKS

The World Needs Your Kid
Me to We, Finding Meaning in a Material World
Me to We, Turning Self Help on its Head
Take Action
Take More Action
It Takes a Child
Free The Children

http://www.metowe.com/books

Ticket Sales support KW Counselling Services’ work with families, children and youth.  A charitable tax receipt will be provided for a portion of the ticket cost (the entire event cost less the cost of the meal)”.  A non charitable receipt will be provided for the entire cost of Corporate Tables.