Iqbal Masih-The Hero Iqbal Masih was a Pakistani boy, living life in a nightmare. At the age of four, his father sold him to a carpet store for twelve dollars. He was a slave, and worked on looms until the age of ten. He escaped, and was eventually saved by Ehsan Ulla Khan, founder of the [...[...]
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September 7th, 2009 - 9:29 am § in Young Heros
Young Heroes: Naim Kabir
Naim Kabir, a senior year high school student, lived all his life in Kuwait. Bangladesh was just another country in the map for him – a place he visited once in two or three years to spend the holidays with his grandparents. He had barely witnessed the Bangladesh which was outside the four walls o[...]