An Essay On Teen Activist Iqbal Masih

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Teen activist are really nice to others, or are they? Teen activist are people who are helping to stop something bad. You need to be caring to be a teen activist. I am going to talk about other teen activist and show what they do.

The first activist is Iqbal Masih. He was a slave that was force to make carpets for six years starting at the age of four, he escaped at the age of ten. When he was free from work he decided that he had the passion to help other slave children from having to work to put food on the table. But because of his passion, he was assassinated at the age of 12.

The next activist is Craig Kielburger. He found out about Iqbal’s death and that gave him the passion to do the exact, same thing as Iqbal. He was able to get his

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