Who’s ready to change the world? WE are!

There have been many milestones in Free The Children’s since Craig Kielburger founded it in his grade 7 classroom in 1995. To date Free the Children has:

• Built more than 650 schools
• Provided clean water to more than 1 million people
• Donated more than 16 million dollars of medical supplies
• Inspired and empowered a generation to “be the change” with the first We Day in 2007.

Tomorrow night will mark another huge step in celebrating and inspiring the change that WE make and you can be part of it.

 

The one-hour, commercial free WE Day special on ABC at 8pm EST will showcase the power young people have to create change. From the We Day stage, Mia Farrow once said, “there is no room like this room anywhere on the planet,” and it’s true. I have been on the We Day stage for the past 2 seasons and I can tell you that the best part is not being on the stage, but it’s being there to honour all of the great things that young people have done and will do.

Did you know that every single student who has ever been to We Day has earned their way there? You can’t buy a ticket to We Day – you earn it, through service. Many of the stadiums that host We Day have the capacity to hold 20,000 people and all of them have undertaken at least one local and one global action to be there. They have raised money and awareness for things that they care about – everything from filling foodbanks in their communities to building schools in developing communities in Kenya, India and Ecuador.

The We Day broadcast on ABC will be hosted by Selena Gomez and will feature special performances by Common, Colbie Caillat and The Band Perry. Stories and inspiration will be shared from Magic Johnson, Rico and Raini Rodriguez and Kid President. There will be profiles of young change-makers like Ezra Frech and Ally Del Monte that will change the way you feel about your own ability to make a difference.

When you watch tomorrow night, know that We Day has honoured the action taken by young people in cities and communities all over North America. When you tune in tomorrow night, you are part of the community that we call WE.

Want to know more about We Day? Check out WeDay.com and We.org and watch this video, Born Out of A Dream, that opens We Day. It gets me, every time.