Free the Children

Who is Free The Children (FTC)?

Free The Children is the world’s largest network of children helping children through education. It was founded by Craig Kielburger along with a group of 12-year-olds who dreamed of changing the world. Since then, Free The Children has grown into a youth movement that spans the globe. Today, through the voices and actions of youth, Free The Children has built more than 500 schools in developing countries around the world, providing quality primary education to more than 50,000 students every day.

Free The Children has a proven track record of success. Awards and accomplishments include:

  • More than one million youth involved in Free The Children’s innovative education and development programs in 45 countries
  • Recipient of the World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child (also known as the Children's Nobel Prize), Human Rights Award from the United Nations/World Association of Non-Government Organizations, Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship
  • Featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, 60 Minutes and The Today Show
  • Profiled in publications including People, Time and The Economist

Visit www.freethechildren.com/whiteknight to learn more.


Monarch Park Collegiate, a Toronto school, has benefited from Free the Children's domestic pilot program. Watch their story on Global TV.


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