Every photo is worth a thousand words. To me this photo was the most powerful of the bunch.

The Free the Children charity’s slogan is “Children helping children through education”. This picture says just that. Children are linked together for one cause: to free children from poverty and exploitation and to free them of the thought that they are powerless when it comes to positive affects on the world.

Children are children and people are people. No matter where we live or the color of our skin, we are all the same. In this photo you can see the nationality differences and how they accepted each other, which is beautiful because some people can’t realize that we are all the same. Everyone deserves the right to clean water, education, a roof over their head, health care and forms of income. These things are given things in life that we take for granted because of where we grow up. It’s so easy to not even think about turning on the tap for water and to grumble about waking up for classes in the morning. For children across the world though, they must have a hard time imagining what it is even like. That is why more people must join the bandwagon to give hope to the adults of our future. It’s sad to consider that the next president or famous artist could be living with no opportunities for their potential.

Every single person counts and matters in that circle. By taking away two people, it would affect the circle’s shape. It is the same for anything you do. Everyone counts and Free the Children strives to make that message clearer. They help young people realize they can make a real contribution to the world.

To get closer to a poverty-free world, change is gradually coming. It takes children, their families and believers to move forward and break out of the cycle of poverty. Poverty is an inequitable fixation affecting the world that can be changed.

The children of today are the adults of tomorrow. To me, for that reason is why I believe Free the Children is so outstanding. 65% of the donations are raised by children themselves wanting other children to have better lives. Can you imagine the future?