'Even a child is known by his doings. . . ' Proverbs 20:11
Heroic Kids: Answers
You probably found this quiz really hard. You probably had to go by clues like nationalities to guess the names. If you were lucky, you had probably heard of two of the kids on this list.
So why take the challenge? Maybe to remind ourselves that often, we neglect to notice the kids in the room. We forget they're there. They know what's going on, more than you think they do. They care. Sometimes, they can teach us. A number of these children had to make their marks early, because that was all the time they had. They weren't going to live to grow up. So why not take this list and do some googling? Maybe we owe these kids more than a plaque. Maybe we should learn about the problems they spent their short lives trying to fight. Maybe there's something we can do to help.
- This 10-year-old girl became America's Youngest Ambassador after she wrote a letter to Yuri Andropov.
- This German Jewish girl wrote a famous diary during the Second World War that inspires people today.
- This 12-year-old boy who died in the Soweto Uprising in South Africa became a symbol of resistance to brutality and injustice.
- This 10-year-old escaped slave helped free over 3,000 other Pakistani children from bonded labour.
- The keynote speaker at the 13th International AIDS conference, this South African boy – who only lived to the age of 12 – represented the rights of those born with HIV.
- This boy was taken from his parents at the age of 5 – to work in the fields. He campaigned for child-friendly villages where children could be free in his native Rajasthan.
- This 16-year-old girl from Zambia led 60 children on a march – to find a school.
- A Taliban gunman tried to murder this young education activist. She received the Nobel Peace Prize at 17.
- This little girl only lived to be 8 years old. But before she died, she raised over $1 million for cancer research – with lemonade stands.
- He's grown up now, but when he was 6, this Canadian boy found out kids in Africa often had to walk kilometers for water. He raised the money for his first well a year later, and his foundation is still going.
| - Samantha Smith
- Anne Frank
- Hector Pieterson
- Iqbal Masih
- Nkosi Johnson
- Om Prakash Gurjar
- Thandiwe Chama
- Malala Yousafzai
- Alexandra Scott
- Ryan Hreljac
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One final thought: why, when the Editor typed 'famous kids', did Google pop up a page full of celebrities and their offspring? We can do better than this.
Post Quiz and Oddities ArchiveDmitri Gheorgheni
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