The Courage to Care: Kailash Satyarthi on Rescuing Childhood, Fighting Slavery & Changing Humanity | Tomorrow Today
6/28/202656 min
In this episode, you'll discover:
- Why one child outside a school changed Kailash Satyarthi's life forever
- The story behind creating a 10,000-book community book bank as a child
- Why he left a successful engineering career to fight child slavery
- The realities of bonded labour and human trafficking
- The dramatic rescue that became the foundation of a global movement
- How international child labour laws were created
- What courage actually looks like in practice
- The sacrifices behind rescuing over 100,000 children
- Why education is the most powerful tool for breaking generational poverty
- Lessons on leadership, humanity and purpose
- Why "the hero is inside each one of us"
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First 90 secondsKailash Satyarthi· Guest0:00
Now onwards, your children will go to the next grade, higher grade. And then if you started bringing books, putting them in my-- on my cart, three, four hours, my cart was filled with books. So more than two thousand books were collected in one day. In few months, more than ten thousand books were collected. Then they set up a book bank. So people started calling me Kailash book bank wala.
Shekhar Natarajan· Host0:25
Tell me why, like, we have this problem. Like, is it feudalistic society? Are we a feudalistic society? Is that why it is? Or is it like- It's a combination of several factor.
Kailash Satyarthi· Guest0:35
One is the greediness of employers and the vulnerability of poor people. Societies, communities deliberately kept backward or poor, who wanted to make easy money out of- Poor people ... poor people and children in particular. Children cannot raise their voice, cannot form the unions, they cannot go to the court of law. You know, exploited physically, mentally, but also sexually in many cases. This is the biggest reason.
Shekhar Natarajan· Host1:03
Can you go back to the day you stopped writing and then someone came to you and said, like, "My daughter getting trafficked." So tell me that whole, like, story, what happened.
Kailash Satyarthi· Guest1:12
And, uh, his daughter's name was- Sabu ... Sabu. When she was about to be sold to a brothel, one day parents saw that some unknown people came from a brothel, and they were bargaining the price. They wanted to buy that girl, and this girl is virgin,