1. What do you know about Free the Children?
2. You can't buy a ticket to We Day you have to earn it, what will you commit to doing to earn your ticket?
If students didn't already know the story of Craig Kielburger and how he started free the children at age 12 by binging an article about child labour that he had found in the local newspaper to school, I wanted students to find it and see that their age is not a limitation to what they can do, in fact their youth is an asset.
Reading the students responses to my second question made me so excited for the potential of these future change makers! They were thoughtful, realistic, and heart warming. Many spoke about the commitment they would make to attending student leadership meetings, how they would organize and participate in initiatives like "We Scare Hunger" and almost all of them said they would reach out to the students in their classes by making an effort to my kind and helpful. Below are a couple of my favourite excerpts from students answers:
"Not judging people and being polite could change the world one step at a time"
"I will help my fellow students around me and be a good example"
"Not always think about myself, but care about others as well"