Springfield school

History/civics project

NOBEL LAUREATE
KAILASH
SATYARTHI

NAME : Ayush kumar

CLASS : X. a
 ROLL.NO. : 15
SESSION : 2019– 20

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