Nobel Peace Prize: Who is Kailash Satyarthi?
by The Daily Eye Team October 11 2014, 3:25 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 52 secsMalala Yousafzai has won the Nobel Peace Prize alongside Kailash Satyarthi an Indian activist who was comparatively unknown until today Kailash Satyarthi's work made a difference to the lives of hundreds of thousands of children ??and yet until he won the Nobel Peace Prize, on Friday, he was not a well-known figure outside of India. The founder of Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA), a charity which has led the campaign against bonded and child labour in India and beyond, Mr Satyarthi, 60, has been dedicated to helping youngsters for almost 35 years. His work has been celebrated by Gordon Brown, who met him when he visited India as prime minister in 2009. As his colleagues in Delhi celebrated today, his son Bhuvan, who also works in the BBA charity, told the Telegraph the prize was a recognition of his father's role in saving more than 83,000 children from bonded labour. The group stages dramatic rescues of child labourers, many of whom are often sold into it by poor families, and rehabilitates them in residential homes.