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Midmark Corporation
Public Invited
to Attend “Free The Children” Presentation
DAYTON, Ohio, Oct. 28, 2015 — Midmark Corporation encourages its
teammates as well as members of the community to attend a presentation
by Craig Kielburger, co-founder of Free The Children on Wednesday, Nov.
4, at 6:30 p.m. at the Versailles Performing Arts Center (VPAC). With
the help of Kielburger, Midmark will be closing out its year-long
centennial celebration by empowering others to make a positive
difference in our community and the world. The doors will open at 6
p.m. and admission is free of charge, but seats are limited. Please
visit midmark.com/FTC or call 1-800-MIDMARK then enter *108100# to make
a reservation.
Kielburger is the co-founder of Free The Children, a Canadian-based
international charity and educational partner that works in eight
developing countries, to implement Adopt a Village, a holistic
international development model designed to achieve sustainable change
through five pillars crucial to community development: Education, Clean
Water and Sanitation, Health, Agriculture and Food Security, and
Alternative Income and Livelihood. In addition, Kielburger is an
author, speaker, columnist, social entrepreneur and international
activist. When he was 12-years old, he founded the organization on a
simple decision that he was going to help children around world, and
now Free The Children is an international charity that empowers
communities to remove barriers to education and break the cycle of
poverty.
In 1995, Kielburger came across an article in the newspaper about a
12-year-old former child slave in Pakistan, who had been murdered
because he spoke up for human rights. Being 12-years-old himself at the
time, Kielburger felt an immediate connection and wanted to do
something.
He recruited 11 of his classmates to help from his school in Thornhill,
Ontario, where he grew up. One of their early initiatives was gathering
3,000 signatures in a petition to the Prime Minister of India
requesting to release child labor activist, Kailash Satyarthi, who went
on the win the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. Kielburger’s parents allowed him
to go on the seven-week journey to South Asia to see poverty and
child-labor first hand. His expedition can be seen on the documentary,
“It Takes A Child.”
Over the course of Kielburger’s career, Free The Children along with
their partner communities have built over 1,000 schools (empowering
over 200,000 children with educations), provided access to clean
drinking water to more than one million people, and was able to provide
$25 million of much needed medical supplies to the health facilities
servicing their partner communities around the world.
For Kielburger’s work to advance human rights, he has been awarded with
15 honorary doctorates and degrees. He has also received prestigious
honors such as the Order of Canada, Roosevelt Freedom From Fear Medal,
World Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child and the Muhammad Ali
Humanitarian Award. Kielburger has shared the WE Day stage with Nobel
Peace laureates, heads of state, celebrities, rock bands, actors and
pop icons, including Prince Harry, Richard Branson, Demi Lovato and
Jennifer Hudson.
Kielburger and his brother Marc, have co-authored 12 books, including
the New York Times bestseller “ME to WE: Finding Meaning in a Material
World.” Their weekly columns are syndicated in over 30 newspapers
across North America. His work has been featured on 60 Minutes,
National Geographic, TIME and The Economist.
Midmark’s mission is to make a positive difference in the practice of
healthcare and in every life we touch, and we are proud to support
Kielburger and Free The Children’s mission to empower each of us to
make the world a better place.
Midmark president and CEO, Anne Eiting Klamar, has had the pleasure of
traveling to a Free The Children community Kenya with Kielburger five
times, and Klamar has stated the experiences have changed her life. For
those who wish to be inspired to dream and change the world, whether
big or small, this evening is for you. Midmark encourages you to let
this evening to touch your heart.
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