Springfield school

History/civics project

NOBEL LAUREATE
KAILASH
SATYARTHI

NAME : ANSHIT GUPTA

CLASS : X - (COMMERCE)
ROLL.NO. : 7
SESSION : 2018 – 19
 CONTENT
 INTRODUCTION
 EARLY LIFE
 INCIDENT MOVIVATED HIM
TO WORK FOR CHILD
LABOUR
 HIS WORKS IN THE FIELD OF
CHILD RIGHTS
 HIS ACHIEVEMENTS
 CONCLUSION
 BIBLIOGRAPHY
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
 TIME TABLE
 INTRODUCTION
Kailash Satyarthi (born Kailash Sharma; 11 January
1954) is an Indian children's rights activist. He is
a Nobel Peace Prize recipient and founder of Bachpan
Bachao Andolan (lit. Save Childhood Movement), the
Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation, Global March
Against Child Labour, and GoodWeave International.
To date, Kailash Satyarthi and his team at Bachpan
Bachao Andolan have liberated more than
86,000 children in India from child labour, slavery and
trafficking. In 1998, Satyarthi led the Global March
against Child Labour, an 80,000 km long march across
103 countries to put forth a global demand against
child labour.
Kailash Satyarthi has been a member of
a UNESCO body established with the goal of providing
“Education for All” and has been on the board of the
Fast Track Initiative (now known as the Global
Partnership for Education).
Satyarthi was among Fortune magazine’s ‘World’s
Greatest Leaders’ in 2015 and featured in LinkedIn’s
Power Profiles List in 2017. His work has been
recognized through various national and international
honours and awards including the Nobel Peace Prize of
2014, which he shared with Malala
Yousafzai of Pakistan.
More recently, Satyarthi led a nationwide march,
Bharat Yatra, in India covering 12,000 kilometres
(7,500 mi) in 35 days, to spread awareness about child
sexual abuse and trafficking.
 EARLY LIFE
Born Kailash Sharma, on 11 January 1954, in
the Vidisha district of central Indian state of Madhya
Pradesh, he changed his surname to Satyarthi
(meaning ‘seeker of truth’). The name change followed
an incident where he, inspired by Mahatma Gandhi’s
leadership in the Indian Independence Movement and
his own town’s leaders speaking out against the Indian
caste system, decided to organize a dinner for the
upper caste residents with food cooked by low-caste,
so called ‘untouchable’ people. When the leaders of
the town failed to show up to the dinner, Satyarthi
went back to his house dejected, to find that elderly
upper caste people were threatening to outcaste his
family unless he “(went) to the river Ganges to take a
holy dip.” Additionally, “(he) should organize a feast for
101 priests, wash their feet and drink that water”.
Satyarthi refused to comply with their unreasonable
demands. However, Satyarthi was still punished, he
was barred from his home’s kitchen and dining room
and his utensils were separated. Angry at the attempt
to outcaste him, Satyarthi decided to “outcaste the
entire caste system” by rejecting his surname, as
most Indian surnames reflect the caste of a family, and
changing it to Satyarthi. He attended Government Boys
Higher Secondary School in Vidhisha, and completed
his degree in electrical engineering at Samrat Ashok
Technological Institute, Vidisha and a post-graduate
degree in high-voltage engineering. He then joined a
college in Bhopal as a lecturer for a few years.
INCIDENT MOTIVATED
HIM TO WORK FOR
CHILD LABOUR
Satyarthi’s childhood occurred on his first day of
school, wherein Satyarthi who was still a child noticed
a boy his age sitting with his father, a cobbler, outside
the premises of the school, mending shoes. After
asking his teacher why the boy wasn’t in school like
him and being denied the answer, Satyarthi questioned
his headmaster who informed him that the cobbler
was poor therefore he could not send his son to school
and that it was perfectly normal for poor children to
work in order to survive. Unsatisfied with the answer
Satyarthi asked the cobbler himself why he didn’t send
his son to school. He was told that there are certain
children who are “born to work”. Satyarthi describes
this as the first time he questioned why some children
are born to work “at the cost of their childhood and
freedom and education and dreams” due to the
circumstances of their birth.

HIS WORKS
In 1980, he gave up his career as an engineer and
became secretary general for the Bonded Labour
Liberation Front; he also founded the Bachpan Bachao
Andolan (Save Childhood Movement) that year. He has
also been involved with the Global March Against Child
Labour and its international advocacy body, the
International Centre on Child Labour and Education
(ICCLE), which are worldwide coalitions of NGOs,
teachers and trades unionists. He has also served as
the President of the Global Campaign for Education,
from its inception in 1999 to 2011, having been one of
its four founders
alongside ActionAid, Oxfam and Education
International.
In addition, he established GoodWeave
International (formerly known as Rugmark) as the first
voluntary labelling, monitoring and certification system
of rugs manufactured without the use of child-labour
in South Asia. This latter organisation operated a
campaign in Europe and the United States in the late
1980s and early 1990s with the intent of raising
consumer awareness of the issues relating to
the accountability of global corporations with regard to
socially responsible consumerism and trade. Satyarthi
has highlighted child labour as a human rights issue as
well as a welfare matter and charitable cause. He has
argued that it
perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy,
population growth, and other social problems, and his
claims have been supported by several studies. He has
also had a role in linking the movement against child
labour with efforts for achieving "Education for All". He
has been a member of a UNESCO body established to
examine this and has been on the board of the Fast
Track Initiative (now known as the Global Partnership
for Education). Satyarthi serves on the board and
committee of several international organisations
including the Centre for Victims of Torture(USA), the
International Labour Rights Fund (USA), and the
International Cocoa Foundation. He is now reportedly
working on bringing child labour and slavery into the
post-2015 development agenda for the United
Nation's Millennium Development Goals.
Satyarthi is the fifth Nobel Prize laureate for India and
only the second Indian laureate of the Nobel Peace
Prize after Mother Teresa in 1979.
Kailash Satyarthi supported "Save the Girl Child"
initiative by Sunita Dube, Chairperson of MedScape
India and discussed the possible actions with Yogesh
Dube, Child Rights Commission member for
betterment of women and children, specifically their
health and well being.
 HIS ACHIEVEMENTS
Satyarthi has been the subject of a number of
documentaries, television series, talk shows, advocacy
and awareness films. In September 2017 India
Times listed Satyarthi as one of the 11 Human Rights
Activists Whose Life Mission Is To Provide Others With
A Dignified Life Satyarthi has been awarded the
following national and international honours:
 2018: Personality of the Decade by Dainik Prayukti
 2017: P.C Chandra Puraskaar
 2015: Harvard's University Award "Humanitarian of
the Year"
 2015: Honorary Doctorate by Amity University,
Gurgaon
 2014: Nobel Peace Prize
 2009: Defenders of Democracy Award (US)
 2008: Alfonso Comin International Award (Spain)
 2007: Gold medal of the Italian Senate (2007)
 2007: recognized in the list of "Heroes Acting to End
Modern Day Slavery" by the US State Department
 2006: Freedom Award (US)
 2002: Wallenberg Medal, awarded by the University
of Michigan
 1999: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Award (Germany)
 1998: Golden Flag Award (Netherlands)
 1995: Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award (US)
 1995: The Trumpeter Award (US)
 1994: The Aachener International Peace Award
(Germany)
 1993: Elected Ashoka Fellow (US)

HIS ORGANISATION INCLUDE :-

 Bachpan Bachao Andolan
 Global March Against Child Labour
 GoodWeave International
 International Cocoa Foundation
 Bharat Yatra
 CONCLUSION
BY DOING THIS PROJECT I GOT INFORMATION ON
KAILASH SATYARTHI AND HIS ORGANISATIONS . HE
WORKED VERY HARD FOR CHILD LABOUR . I ALSO GOT
INFORMATION OF ACHIEVEMENTS AND AWARDS WON
BY HIM .
 BIBLIOGRAPHY
I VISITED ON :
 WWW.WIKIPIEDA.COM
 WWW.INDIANETZONE.COM
 WWW.GOOGLE.COM
 AND TOOK HELP OF VARIOUS BOOKS FOR
INFORMATION .
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS MY SPECIAL THANKS OF
GRATITUDE TO MY TEACHER WHO GAVE ME THE
GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO DO WONDERFUL PROJECT
ON THE TOPIC “NOBEL LAUREATE KAILASH SATYARTHI”
WHICH ENCOURAGED ME TO WORK FOR CHILD
LABOUR . I CAME TO KNOW SO MANY NEW THINGS
ABOUT KAILASH SATYARTHI . I AM REALLY THANKFUL
TO HER .
 TIME TABLE
TO COLLECT INFORMATION :- 1 DAY
FOR TYPING :- 1 DAY
FOR PRINTING :- 4 – 5 MINUTES
FOR PASTING PICTURES :- 1 HOURS