Kailash Satyarthi Essay

Kailash Satyarthi The Seeker of Truth
Anonymous
BUS 3305: Business Law and Ethics
The University of the People

Introduction Kailash Satyarthi is a human rights activist focused on ending child slavery and exploitive child labor, helping to save over 80,000 children from slavery (A Seeker… n.d.). We will look at how he, through great personal sacrifice, has been able to achieve so much in the fight for children. We will explore his early years, and what motivated him to pursue his calling, his selfless actions which made him a hero to so many and also look at how his actions contributed to entrepreneurship in the global economy.
Early life Kailash Satyarthi was born Kailash Sharma January 11, 1954 in Vidisha, India (Wikipedia, n.d.). In order to understand what motived Mr. Satyarthi to become the champion for exploited and enslaved children it is necessary to look at a couple of incidents that occurred he himself was a boy. On Mr. Satyarthi’s first day at school he saw a cobbler and his son, a boy of the same age as Kailash, working together outside the school. Mr. Satyarthi did not understand why he got to go to school

Satyarthi would not have been my first choice. When I think of the word entrepreneur, I immediately think of a business icon like Steve Jobs or Andrew Carnegie or even Oprah Winfrey. I am grateful for the different perspective. Entrepreneurship, I am learning, is much more than someone who creates a successful organization, although that in itself would qualify Mr. Satyarthi. Entrepreneurship is a more a mindset and a group of behaviors around developing a new way of doing things. Mr. Satyarthi has created several organizations; in addition to the Bachpan Bachao Andolan, he has formed Bal Ashram, an organization to teach children basic skills (The Famous, n.d.) and GoodWeave International, to certify rugs made in India without child labor (Wikipedia,