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WE Charity

May 15, 2023

"Free the Children" redirects here. For the book about the free school movement, see Free the Children (book).

WE Charity (French: Organisme UNIS), formerly known as Free the Children (French: Enfants Entraide), is an international development charity and youth empowerment movement founded in 1995 by human rights advocates Marc and Craig Kielburger.[1] The organization implemented development programs in Asia, Africa and Latin America, focusing on education, water, health, food and economic opportunity.[2] It also runs domestic programming for young people in Canada, the US and UK, promoting corporate-sponsored service learning and active citizenship.[3] Charity Intelligence, a registered Canadian charity that rates over 750 Canadian charities, rates the "demonstrated impact" per dollar of We Charity as "Low" and has issued a "Donor Advisory" due to We Charity replacing most of its board of directors in 2020.[4]

WE Charity
Formation1995
TypeInternational charity and educational partner
HeadquartersToronto, Ontario, Canada
Founders
Craig Kielburger
Marc Kielburger
Websitewe.org
Formerly called
Free the Children

We Charity is related to other ventures from the Kielburgers, including the for-profit Me to We, which was the title of a 2004 book by Craig and Marc Kielburger,[5] and We Day, a series of large-scale motivational events held in 17 cities throughout the school year.

A scandal arose when the charity was selected by the Canadian federal government in 2020 for a $43.53 million contract to oversee $900 million for the Canada Student Service Grant,[6] but the decision was reversed after ties between the organization and the Trudeau family, including payments to Justin Trudeau's wife, brother, and mother, as well as the family of former Finance Minister Bill Morneau, were called into question.[7][8][9]

On 9 September 2020, We Charity announced that it was winding down its operations in Canada and selling its assets to establish an endowment that will help sustain ongoing We Charity projects around the world.[10][11][12] The announcement also explains that the existing board of directors, the existing Canadian employees, and the Kielburgers would leave We Charity Canada.[13]

In November 2020, a Wikipedia investigation found the Wikipedia article for the WE Charity was illicitly modified by "paid agents who used deceptive online identities" from Israeli online reputation management service Percepto. The Chief Operations Officer for WE Charity, Scott Baker, denied involvement with the sockpuppetry and Percepto declined to comment.[14]

In November 2021, CBC News reported that the WE Charity misled donors about the school they built in Kenya. "Far fewer schools were built than were funded by donors, a fact that leaked internal WE documents show was co-ordinated at the highest levels of the organization." WE Charity denied the report.[15] CBC reported that, likely in a "co-ordinated campaign", a large number of groups and individuals wrote letters and emails discouraging them from reporting the story in the months leading up to its publication. The messages largely came from educators and charities, and included a full-page advertisement printed in several newspapers in September that argued that the news report was not in the public interest.[16]

On 8 February 2022, WE Charity filed a lawsuit against the CBC in the District of Columbia District Court, alleging defamation stemming from a November 2021 piece which claimed that WE Charity had misled donors who helped build schools in Kenya. WE Charity is represented in the case by New York-based law firm Boies Schiller Flexner.[17][18]

History

 
Craig Kielburger, age 12, on his first trip to South America
 
Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School, where Kielburger attended school and the charity's early base of operations

WE Charity (formerly Free the Children) was founded in 1995 by Craig Kielburger when he was 12 years old. Kielburger was reading through the Toronto Star before school one day when he came across an article about the murder of a 12-year-old Pakistani boy named Iqbal Masih, a former child factory worker in Pakistan's carpet trade who had spoken out against child labour[19] and received death threats for his activism.[20] According to Masih's account, he was sold by his parents to a factory at the age of 4 and worked there until he was 10, much of the time shackled to a loom.[21] After the murder of Masih led to an international outcry, Pakistani police said that the killing was not connected to his anti-child labour activism.[21]

One of the Free the Children's first actions was to collect 3,000 signatures on a petition to the prime minister of India, calling for the release of imprisoned child labour activist Kailash Satyarthi.[22] The petition was sent in a shoe box wrapped in brown paper.[22] Satyarthi was eventually released. After he was freed, Satyarthi said, "It was one of the most powerful actions taken on my behalf, and for me, definitely the most memorable."[22] Shortly afterward, Kielburger spoke at the convention of the Ontario Federation of Labour, where union representatives pledged $150,000 for a rehabilitation centre in India. The Bal Ashram centre was built by Satyarthi.[23]

In December 1995, Kielburger embarked on an eight-week tour of South Asia to meet child labourers and hear their stories first-hand.[24] It was on that trip that Kielburger had a meeting with then-Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, in which Kielburger convinced Chrétien to take a public stand against child slavery.[24] In 1999, he wrote Free the Children, a book detailing his trip to South Asia and the founding of his charity.[25]

Free the Children initially fundraised for organizations that raided factories and freed children from forced labour situations. When it became clear that the rescued children were being resold by their impoverished families, the organization changed its approach and started building schools in Nicaragua, Kenya, Ecuador and India.[3] The organization later evolved an international development model with projects related to education, water, health care, food security and income generation.[26]

In 2007, at age 25, Craig Kielburger was inducted into the Order of Canada.[19] the second-youngest Canadian ever to receive the honour. His brother Marc Kielburger was inducted into the Order of Canada in 2010.[27] Ernst & Young and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, a sister organization of the World Economic Forum, presented the 2008 Social Entrepreneur Of The Year award in Canada to the Kielburgers for their work with Free the Children.[28]

Free the Children rebranded as WE Charity in 2016.[29] The charity runs domestic programs for young people in Canada, the US and the UK, and international development programs in Africa, Asia and Latin America.[2] In September 2017, the organization moved to a new headquarters in downtown Toronto, named "WE Global Learning Centre".[30] The Centre features a theatre, broadcast studio, and an open concept design.[31]

In March 2020, a significant proportion of the board of directors at WE Charity was abruptly replaced. WE Charity stated that this had been typical conduct, as the contracts had expired naturally, however it was later revealed that the positions were slated to end on August 31, not March.[32]

Programs

Domestic

Students take part in activities such as food and clothing drives for the homeless,[33] anti-bullying campaigns,[33] and fundraisers to build water projects,[34] and schools[35] in countries where WE Charity works, including Kenya, India, and Ecuador. They also raise money for other organizations and causes, such as children's hospitals, the Terry Fox Run, and women's shelters.[36]

We Charity partners with the Martin Aboriginal Education Initiative to deliver the "We Stand Together" campaign, promoted as strengthening ties between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada by emphasizing Canadian Indigenous history in classrooms.[37]

In August 2019, the federal government announced that it was giving $3 million to WE Social Entrepreneurs initiative, aiming to create 200 "youth-led enterprises" that address social issues at a community level.[38][39]

International

In July 2019, the organization opened its first WE College in Narok County, Kenya. It offered a range of courses to girls of Maasai Mara community.[40] The charity and Me to We formerly carried out activities including school construction and We Day in China. Its purported connection to the Government of China came under scrutiny during the broader government contract scandal, though the organization denied that any relationship existed.[41]

WE Day

Main article: We Day
 
WE Charity founders Marc and Craig Kielburger at WE Day 2008

WE Charity holds an annual series of stadium-sized youth empowerment events called "WE Day", bringing together tens of thousands of students and educators as part of the yearlong WE Schools service learning program. WE Day has featured notable speakers, such as Al Gore, Elie Wiesel, Martin Luther King III,[42] Kofi Annan,[43] Prince Harry and Meghan Markle[44] and performers, such as Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Lilly Singh,[45] Jennifer Hudson, Liam Payne, Iskra Lawrence, and Naomi Campbell.[46] Tickets are not purchased, but are instead earned by students through service in a local or a global cause. The first WE Day was staged in Toronto in October 2007. The program has since expanded into 17 cities, including London, Chicago, Seattle, and Los Angeles.[47] As of 2020, WE Day has been scrapped "for the foreseeable future".[48]

Me to We

Main article: Me to We

In 2004, Craig and Marc Kielburger published Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World. The book included contributions from Oprah Winfrey, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Dr. Jane Goodall, and outlined the tenets of the "ME to WE" philosophy, including the importance of community and the idea of service as a path to happiness.[49]

In 2008, Kielburger co-founded ME to WE,[50] a social enterprise that offers socially conscious products, leadership training and travel experiences. ME to WE donates a minimum half of its profits to its partner organization WE Charity, to support its operating costs and international development work and invests the other half back into growing the enterprise.[51][52]

Governance and financials

WE Charity is governed by separate Boards of Directors in Canada, the US and UK. The Canadian Board Chairwoman was Michelle Douglas, a Canadian human rights activist.[53] She resigned in March 2020, at the same time as many other board members.[54] Douglas has said publicly since that she resigned because of "concerning developments" at the charity.[55] Board members are drawn from government, academia, business, media and charitable sectors.[56]

Concerns have been raised about the blurred lines between We Charity and Me to We.[57] These blurred lines include both organizations having the same Chief Financial Officer.[58] According to Charity Intelligence, in 2019, We Charity transferred 7% of its revenue to Me to We, a magnitude of revenue transferred from a charity to a related for-profit company that Charity Intelligence has not seen with any other charities.[59][60] We Charity's response to these concerns is that over a 5-year period preceding 2020, even after excluding the value of services and in kind contributions, Me to We contributed a net of $1.3 million more than it received from We Charity.[60]

Work culture

Some former employees and volunteers of We Charity have criticized the way they were treated at the organization.[61] Former employees have been prevented from speaking about the organization because of non-disclosure agreements and described being in a culture of fear when challenging internal decisions.[61] In June 2020, Amanda Maitland, a former We Charity employee, said a speech she wrote for a We Schools tour in 2019 about her experiences as a black woman was edited without her approval by a group of mostly white staff members.[61] Maitland said when she tried a few months later to speak up a staff meeting about problems within the organization, she was "aggressively" shut down by Marc Kielburger.[61] In July 2020, Marc and Craig Kielburger apologized "unreservedly" to Maitland on their personal Instagram accounts.[61] The Kielburgers said the editing of Maitland's speech "simply should not have happened."[61] A petition that circulated in July 2020 called on We Charity to take specific anti-racist measures.[61] WE Charity said in a statement to CBC News that it "stands firmly for inclusion, diversity and the equitable, open treatment of all."[61]

Government contracts scandal

Main article: WE Charity scandal

In 2020, the federal cabinet of Justin Trudeau selected WE to administer a payment program for the Canada Student Service Grant program, a $900 million volunteer program, for a contract worth $43.53 million.[54][62] The decision raised questions about the charity's ties to the Trudeau family and potential conflicts of interest and why the federal public service could not administer the funds as part of their regular mandate. Prime Minister Trudeau defended the government's initial decision to have WE Charity administer the program, saying that the organization's networks across the country made it the right choice and WE Charity itself would not profit from the contract.[54]

On July 3, Liberal Minister of Diversity and Inclusion and Youth, Bardish Chagger, announced that WE Charity would no longer be administering the Canada Student Service Grant program.[63][64] That same day, the Ethics Commissioner announced an investigation into Trudeau and the decision to have WE Charity administer the summer student grant program.[65][66] Later it was revealed that Trudeau's mother Margaret and brother Alexandre received $250,000 and $32,000, respectively, for speaking at WE events between 2016 and 2020.[67] Two of the daughters of Minister of Finance Bill Morneau were also found to have worked in unrelated work for the charity, one in a paid contract position, and the other as an unpaid volunteer; Morneau did not recuse himself from the cabinet decision for the contract.[68]

Opposition parties have called for a variety of actions including the release of documents related to the charity and for high-ranking Liberals to appear before Parliamentary committees; the Conservatives asked for an investigation by the RCMP.[69] Since then, Michelle Douglas, the former chair of We Charity's board, the Kielburger brothers, Trudeau, and his chief of staff Katie Telford have all been scheduled to testify before the Finance Committee. On July 31, 2020, the Government of Ontario announced that it would not be renewing an unspecified existing contract the province had with the WE Charity.[70]

In a detailed report released May 13, 2021, Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion ruled that WE Charity did not receive any preferential treatment from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.[71][72][73] Dion refuted the claim that WE Charity founders Craig and Marc Kielburger were friends with the Trudeau family, writing, "During the examination, I determined there was no friendship between Mr. Trudeau and the Kielburgers, nor was Mr. Trudeau involved in any discussions with them leading to the decisions."[71][73][72] He also ruled that Trudeau's wife Sophie's volunteer work for WE Charity did not constitute a conflict of interest, and that none of Trudeau's relatives could have personally benefited from the government's contracts with WE Charity.[71][72]

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Free the Children redirects here For the book about the free school movement see Free the Children book WE Charity French Organisme UNIS formerly known as Free the Children French Enfants Entraide is an international development charity and youth empowerment movement founded in 1995 by human rights advocates Marc and Craig Kielburger 1 The organization implemented development programs in Asia Africa and Latin America focusing on education water health food and economic opportunity 2 It also runs domestic programming for young people in Canada the US and UK promoting corporate sponsored service learning and active citizenship 3 Charity Intelligence a registered Canadian charity that rates over 750 Canadian charities rates the demonstrated impact per dollar of We Charity as Low and has issued a Donor Advisory due to We Charity replacing most of its board of directors in 2020 4 WE CharityFormation1995TypeInternational charity and educational partnerHeadquartersToronto Ontario CanadaFoundersCraig KielburgerMarc KielburgerWebsitewe wbr orgFormerly calledFree the ChildrenWe Charity is related to other ventures from the Kielburgers including the for profit Me to We which was the title of a 2004 book by Craig and Marc Kielburger 5 and We Day a series of large scale motivational events held in 17 cities throughout the school year A scandal arose when the charity was selected by the Canadian federal government in 2020 for a 43 53 million contract to oversee 900 million for the Canada Student Service Grant 6 but the decision was reversed after ties between the organization and the Trudeau family including payments to Justin Trudeau s wife brother and mother as well as the family of former Finance Minister Bill Morneau were called into question 7 8 9 On 9 September 2020 We Charity announced that it was winding down its operations in Canada and selling its assets to establish an endowment that will help sustain ongoing We Charity projects around the world 10 11 12 The announcement also explains that the existing board of directors the existing Canadian employees and the Kielburgers would leave We Charity Canada 13 In November 2020 a Wikipedia investigation found the Wikipedia article for the WE Charity was illicitly modified by paid agents who used deceptive online identities from Israeli online reputation management service Percepto The Chief Operations Officer for WE Charity Scott Baker denied involvement with the sockpuppetry and Percepto declined to comment 14 In November 2021 CBC News reported that the WE Charity misled donors about the school they built in Kenya Far fewer schools were built than were funded by donors a fact that leaked internal WE documents show was co ordinated at the highest levels of the organization WE Charity denied the report 15 CBC reported that likely in a co ordinated campaign a large number of groups and individuals wrote letters and emails discouraging them from reporting the story in the months leading up to its publication The messages largely came from educators and charities and included a full page advertisement printed in several newspapers in September that argued that the news report was not in the public interest 16 On 8 February 2022 WE Charity filed a lawsuit against the CBC in the District of Columbia District Court alleging defamation stemming from a November 2021 piece which claimed that WE Charity had misled donors who helped build schools in Kenya WE Charity is represented in the case by New York based law firm Boies Schiller Flexner 17 18 Contents 1 History 2 Programs 2 1 Domestic 2 2 International 3 WE Day 4 Me to We 5 Governance and financials 6 Work culture 7 Government contracts scandal 8 References 9 External linksHistory Craig Kielburger age 12 on his first trip to South America Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School where Kielburger attended school and the charity s early base of operations WE Charity formerly Free the Children was founded in 1995 by Craig Kielburger when he was 12 years old Kielburger was reading through the Toronto Star before school one day when he came across an article about the murder of a 12 year old Pakistani boy named Iqbal Masih a former child factory worker in Pakistan s carpet trade who had spoken out against child labour 19 and received death threats for his activism 20 According to Masih s account he was sold by his parents to a factory at the age of 4 and worked there until he was 10 much of the time shackled to a loom 21 After the murder of Masih led to an international outcry Pakistani police said that the killing was not connected to his anti child labour activism 21 One of the Free the Children s first actions was to collect 3 000 signatures on a petition to the prime minister of India calling for the release of imprisoned child labour activist Kailash Satyarthi 22 The petition was sent in a shoe box wrapped in brown paper 22 Satyarthi was eventually released After he was freed Satyarthi said It was one of the most powerful actions taken on my behalf and for me definitely the most memorable 22 Shortly afterward Kielburger spoke at the convention of the Ontario Federation of Labour where union representatives pledged 150 000 for a rehabilitation centre in India The Bal Ashram centre was built by Satyarthi 23 In December 1995 Kielburger embarked on an eight week tour of South Asia to meet child labourers and hear their stories first hand 24 It was on that trip that Kielburger had a meeting with then Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien in which Kielburger convinced Chretien to take a public stand against child slavery 24 In 1999 he wrote Free the Children a book detailing his trip to South Asia and the founding of his charity 25 Free the Children initially fundraised for organizations that raided factories and freed children from forced labour situations When it became clear that the rescued children were being resold by their impoverished families the organization changed its approach and started building schools in Nicaragua Kenya Ecuador and India 3 The organization later evolved an international development model with projects related to education water health care food security and income generation 26 In 2007 at age 25 Craig Kielburger was inducted into the Order of Canada 19 the second youngest Canadian ever to receive the honour His brother Marc Kielburger was inducted into the Order of Canada in 2010 27 Ernst amp Young and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship a sister organization of the World Economic Forum presented the 2008 Social Entrepreneur Of The Year award in Canada to the Kielburgers for their work with Free the Children 28 Free the Children rebranded as WE Charity in 2016 29 The charity runs domestic programs for young people in Canada the US and the UK and international development programs in Africa Asia and Latin America 2 In September 2017 the organization moved to a new headquarters in downtown Toronto named WE Global Learning Centre 30 The Centre features a theatre broadcast studio and an open concept design 31 In March 2020 a significant proportion of the board of directors at WE Charity was abruptly replaced WE Charity stated that this had been typical conduct as the contracts had expired naturally however it was later revealed that the positions were slated to end on August 31 not March 32 ProgramsDomestic Students take part in activities such as food and clothing drives for the homeless 33 anti bullying campaigns 33 and fundraisers to build water projects 34 and schools 35 in countries where WE Charity works including Kenya India and Ecuador They also raise money for other organizations and causes such as children s hospitals the Terry Fox Run and women s shelters 36 We Charity partners with the Martin Aboriginal Education Initiative to deliver the We Stand Together campaign promoted as strengthening ties between Indigenous and non Indigenous people in Canada by emphasizing Canadian Indigenous history in classrooms 37 In August 2019 the federal government announced that it was giving 3 million to WE Social Entrepreneurs initiative aiming to create 200 youth led enterprises that address social issues at a community level 38 39 International In July 2019 the organization opened its first WE College in Narok County Kenya It offered a range of courses to girls of Maasai Mara community 40 The charity and Me to We formerly carried out activities including school construction and We Day in China Its purported connection to the Government of China came under scrutiny during the broader government contract scandal though the organization denied that any relationship existed 41 WE DayMain article We Day WE Charity founders Marc and Craig Kielburger at WE Day 2008 WE Charity holds an annual series of stadium sized youth empowerment events called WE Day bringing together tens of thousands of students and educators as part of the yearlong WE Schools service learning program WE Day has featured notable speakers such as Al Gore Elie Wiesel Martin Luther King III 42 Kofi Annan 43 Prince Harry and Meghan Markle 44 and performers such as Demi Lovato Selena Gomez Lilly Singh 45 Jennifer Hudson Liam Payne Iskra Lawrence and Naomi Campbell 46 Tickets are not purchased but are instead earned by students through service in a local or a global cause The first WE Day was staged in Toronto in October 2007 The program has since expanded into 17 cities including London Chicago Seattle and Los Angeles 47 As of 2020 WE Day has been scrapped for the foreseeable future 48 Me to WeMain article Me to We In 2004 Craig and Marc Kielburger published Me to We Finding Meaning in a Material World The book included contributions from Oprah Winfrey Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Dr Jane Goodall and outlined the tenets of the ME to WE philosophy including the importance of community and the idea of service as a path to happiness 49 In 2008 Kielburger co founded ME to WE 50 a social enterprise that offers socially conscious products leadership training and travel experiences ME to WE donates a minimum half of its profits to its partner organization WE Charity to support its operating costs and international development work and invests the other half back into growing the enterprise 51 52 Governance and financialsWE Charity is governed by separate Boards of Directors in Canada the US and UK The Canadian Board Chairwoman was Michelle Douglas a Canadian human rights activist 53 She resigned in March 2020 at the same time as many other board members 54 Douglas has said publicly since that she resigned because of concerning developments at the charity 55 Board members are drawn from government academia business media and charitable sectors 56 Concerns have been raised about the blurred lines between We Charity and Me to We 57 These blurred lines include both organizations having the same Chief Financial Officer 58 According to Charity Intelligence in 2019 We Charity transferred 7 of its revenue to Me to We a magnitude of revenue transferred from a charity to a related for profit company that Charity Intelligence has not seen with any other charities 59 60 We Charity s response to these concerns is that over a 5 year period preceding 2020 even after excluding the value of services and in kind contributions Me to We contributed a net of 1 3 million more than it received from We Charity 60 Work cultureSome former employees and volunteers of We Charity have criticized the way they were treated at the organization 61 Former employees have been prevented from speaking about the organization because of non disclosure agreements and described being in a culture of fear when challenging internal decisions 61 In June 2020 Amanda Maitland a former We Charity employee said a speech she wrote for a We Schools tour in 2019 about her experiences as a black woman was edited without her approval by a group of mostly white staff members 61 Maitland said when she tried a few months later to speak up a staff meeting about problems within the organization she was aggressively shut down by Marc Kielburger 61 In July 2020 Marc and Craig Kielburger apologized unreservedly to Maitland on their personal Instagram accounts 61 The Kielburgers said the editing of Maitland s speech simply should not have happened 61 A petition that circulated in July 2020 called on We Charity to take specific anti racist measures 61 WE Charity said in a statement to CBC News that it stands firmly for inclusion diversity and the equitable open treatment of all 61 Government contracts scandalMain article WE Charity scandal In 2020 the federal cabinet of Justin Trudeau selected WE to administer a payment program for the Canada Student Service Grant program a 900 million volunteer program for a contract worth 43 53 million 54 62 The decision raised questions about the charity s ties to the Trudeau family and potential conflicts of interest and why the federal public service could not administer the funds as part of their regular mandate Prime Minister Trudeau defended the government s initial decision to have WE Charity administer the program saying that the organization s networks across the country made it the right choice and WE Charity itself would not profit from the contract 54 On July 3 Liberal Minister of Diversity and Inclusion and Youth Bardish Chagger announced that WE Charity would no longer be administering the Canada Student Service Grant program 63 64 That same day the Ethics Commissioner announced an investigation into Trudeau and the decision to have WE Charity administer the summer student grant program 65 66 Later it was revealed that Trudeau s mother Margaret and brother Alexandre received 250 000 and 32 000 respectively for speaking at WE events between 2016 and 2020 67 Two of the daughters of Minister of Finance Bill Morneau were also found to have worked in unrelated work for the charity one in a paid contract position and the other as an unpaid volunteer Morneau did not recuse himself from the cabinet decision for the contract 68 Opposition parties have called for a variety of actions including the release of documents related to the charity and for high ranking Liberals to appear before Parliamentary committees the Conservatives asked for an investigation by the RCMP 69 Since then Michelle Douglas the former chair of We Charity s board the Kielburger brothers Trudeau and his chief of staff Katie Telford have all been scheduled to testify before the Finance Committee On July 31 2020 the Government of Ontario announced that it would not be renewing an unspecified existing contract the province had with the WE Charity 70 In a detailed report released May 13 2021 Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion ruled that WE Charity did not receive any preferential treatment from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 71 72 73 Dion refuted the claim that WE Charity founders Craig and Marc Kielburger were friends with the Trudeau family writing During the examination I determined there was no friendship between Mr Trudeau and the Kielburgers nor was Mr Trudeau involved in any discussions with them leading to the decisions 71 73 72 He also ruled that Trudeau s wife Sophie s volunteer work for WE Charity did not constitute a conflict of interest and that none of Trudeau s relatives could have personally benefited from the government s contracts with WE Charity 71 72 References Doubt cast over Trudeau s assertion that only WE Charity can run 900M student grant program Yahoo News Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 3 July 2020 Archived from the original on 13 July 2020 WE Charity which was started by human rights advocates Marc and Craig Kielburger in 1995 a b WE Charity Charity Intelligence Canada Archived from the original on 2019 06 05 Retrieved 2019 06 19 a b Duffy Andrew 2015 04 25 Free The Children at 20 An unlikely Canadian success story Ottawa Citizen Archived from the original on 2019 08 10 Retrieved 2019 06 19 WE Charity Charity Intelligence Canada Archived from the original on 2019 06 05 Retrieved 2019 07 30 Kielburger Craig amp Marc 2004 Me to We Turning Self Help On Its Head Toronto John Wiley amp Sons ISBN 0470835109 verification needed Zimonjic Peter July 16 2020 WE Charity contract could have been worth up to 43 53 million says Chagger CBC News Archived from the original on August 21 2020 Retrieved August 21 2020 D Amore Rachael 2020 07 13 WE Charity tries to set record straight over contract in full page newspaper ads Global News Archived from the original on 2020 07 13 Retrieved 2020 07 13 Trudeau s personal ties to the charity came under heightened scrutiny last week after the organization confirmed it made payments to both his brother and his mother A simple guide to the new crisis engulfing Trudeau BBC News Archived from the original on 2020 08 20 Retrieved 2020 08 21 McGregor Janyce July 10 2020 Bill Morneau has family ties to WE Charity did not steer clear of cabinet discussion of contract CBC News Archived from the original on July 10 2020 Retrieved August 21 2020 WE Charity winding down operations in Canada CTVNews 2020 09 09 Archived from the original on 2020 09 10 Retrieved 2020 09 09 WE Charity closing operations in Canada The Globe and Mail Archived from the original on 2020 09 09 Retrieved 2020 09 09 Charity W E WE Charity Canada to wind down operations and set up endowment fund to support education and humanitarian programs newswire ca Archived from the original on 2020 09 10 Retrieved 2020 09 09 WE Charity Canada to wind down operations and set up endowment fund to support education and humanitarian program PDF 2020 09 09 Retrieved 2020 09 09 York Geoffrey Kerr Jaren 2020 03 11 Wikipedia probe finds illicit editing of WE Charity pages The Globe and Mail Archived from the original on 2020 11 10 Retrieved 2020 11 14 Pierce Matthew Cashore Harvey Kelley Mark McKenna Kate 2021 11 18 WE Charity misled donors about building schools in Kenya records show CBC News Retrieved 2021 12 02 Fenlon Brodie November 20 2021 What happened behind the scenes of our WE Charity investigation CBC News Retrieved December 11 2021 WE Charity v Canadian Broadcasting Corporation law com WE Charity Sues the CBC s The Fifth Estate Fair Press February 15 2022 a b Order of Canada recipients Toronto Star 2007 02 21 Archived from the original on 2019 07 19 Retrieved 2019 01 14 Child Labor Critic Is Slain in Pakistan The New York Times 1995 04 19 ISSN 0362 4331 Archived from the original on 2020 07 14 Retrieved 2020 07 13 Iqbal had received several death threats from people in the carpet industry angered by his comments about child labor a b Plot Discounted in Death of Pakistani Boy SFGate 1995 04 21 Archived from the original on 2020 07 02 Retrieved 2020 07 13 Pakistani police said yesterday that the killing of a 12 year old crusader against child labor does not appear to be the result of a plot Masih worked as a carpet weaver from the age of 4 after being sold by his parents to a factory until he was 10 much of the time shackled to a loom according to an account he gave to an international labor conference in Sweden last November a b c Rysavy Tracy Free the Children the Story of Craig Kielburger Yes U S magazine Archived from the original on 2015 09 20 Retrieved 2015 08 20 Kovacs Jacqueline Free the Children celebrates its 20th birthday Canadian Living Archived from the original on 2016 01 09 Retrieved 2015 09 21 a b Free The Children at 20 An unlikely Canadian success story Ottawa Citizen 25 April 2015 Archived from the original on 12 April 2019 Retrieved 27 January 2019 Kielburger Craig Free the Children A Young Man Fights Against Child Labor and Proves That Children Can Change the World Significant developments in Free The Children s history The Globe and Mail Archived from the original on 2017 02 17 Retrieved 2019 06 19 Craig and Marc Kielburger in pictures The Globe and Mail Retrieved 2019 01 14 EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year Ernst amp Young Archived from the original on 2020 07 22 Retrieved 2020 08 01 Free the Children Becomes WE Charity Charity Intelligence Canada Charity Intelligence Canada Archived from the original on 2019 01 21 Retrieved 2019 06 19 Global Learning Centre takes We organization to new heights The Globe and Mail 2017 09 25 Retrieved 2019 01 21 This might be Toronto s nicest new office space www blogto com Archived from the original on 2019 01 22 Retrieved 2019 01 21 Internal shakeup saw most of the WE Charity board replaced earlier this year The Globe and Mail Archived from the original on 2020 08 22 Retrieved 2020 10 03 a b Sasvari Tom 2018 11 09 MSS We Scare Hunger campaign a success Manitoulin Expositor Archived from the original on 2019 03 25 Retrieved 2019 06 19 Wagner Cole 2018 04 26 Merritt Secondary School students encouraging locals to walk for water Merritt Herald Merritt British Columbia Retrieved 2019 06 19 Buchner Jill 19 September 2016 2016 Me to We winner Xavier West Canadian Living Archived from the original on 2017 08 05 Retrieved 2019 06 19 Sioux North High School donation The Sioux Lookout Bulletin Sioux Lookout Ontario Canada 2019 01 22 Retrieved 2019 06 19 Sioux North High School s Free the Children Club presented First Step Women s Shelter with a cheque for 335 to assist with their Adopt A Family Program These funds were raised in combination with the SNHS Grade 11 Leadership Class and Free the Children bake sale Who will be the next Tecumseh The Globe and Mail Archived from the original on 2017 03 25 Retrieved 2019 06 19 Feds provide 3 million boost to charity for social entrepreneurs National Post 2019 08 21 Retrieved 2019 08 25 Feds Give WE Charity 3 Million For Youth Entrepreneurship Initiative HuffPost Canada 2019 08 21 Archived from the original on 2019 08 26 Retrieved 2019 08 26 First Lady champions education opportunities for vulnerable girls and women Capital FM Kenya July 17 2019 Retrieved July 29 2019 Blackwell Tom July 28 2020 WE s history with Beijing from endorsements in People s Daily to appearances at Chinese embassy National Post Retrieved July 29 2020 We Day 2013 Toronto Martin Luther King III Chris Hadfield Jonas Brothers Celebrate Youth Activism PHOTOS HuffPost Canada 2013 09 20 Archived from the original on 2019 01 07 Retrieved 2019 01 07 Empowering young global citizens at We Day Kofi Annan Foundation 2014 08 28 Archived from the original on 2019 01 07 Retrieved 2019 01 07 Meghan Markle Surprises A WE Day Crowd After Prince Harry s Speech HuffPost Canada 2019 03 06 Archived from the original on 2019 03 28 Retrieved 2019 03 20 Friend David 2018 11 13 Superwoman star Lilly Singh joins creators taking a break from YouTube CP24 Archived from the original on 2019 01 21 Retrieved 2019 01 21 Colvin Caroline Harry Dragged Meghan On Stage But Their Body Language Is Actually Heartwarming Elite Daily Archived from the original on 2019 03 07 Retrieved 2019 03 20 Kelowna high school students changing the world one good deed at a time Okanagan Global News 2018 12 11 Archived from the original on 2019 01 21 Retrieved 2019 01 21 Bensadoun Emerald July 22 2020 WE Charity cancels WE Day activities for foreseeable future after grant controversy Global News Archived from the original on July 20 2020 Retrieved July 27 2020 CM Magazine Me to We Finding Meaning in a Material World University of Manitoba Archived from the original on 2020 07 19 Retrieved 2019 05 19 Marc and Craig Kielburger s do gooding social enterprise The Globe and Mail Archived from the original on 2018 05 06 Retrieved 2019 02 05 Yorkdale Me to We pop up offers one stop Christmas shopping Toronto Star 19 November 2014 Archived from the original on 20 July 2018 Retrieved 14 March 2018 Craig and Marc Kielburger believe changing the world is possible The Globe and Mail Archived from the original on 2016 11 01 Retrieved 2019 02 05 Michelle Douglas The Canadian Encyclopedia Archived from the original on August 27 2019 Retrieved September 1 2019 a b c Cullen Catherine July 2 2020 WE Charity saw resignations departures from senior ranks before getting 900M government contract CBC News Retrieved July 2 2020 Walsh Marieke McArthur Greg July 27 2020 Former WE Charity chair says she resigned over concerning developments at the organization The Globe and Mail Archived from the original on July 27 2020 Retrieved July 27 2020 Our Team WE Charity Archived from the original on 2019 05 03 Retrieved 2019 06 19 WE Charity Charity Intelligence Canada Archived from the original on 2020 08 03 Retrieved 2020 07 31 What s The Deal With WE Charity s Accounting Department Canadaland 15 July 2020 Archived from the original on 2020 07 18 Retrieved 2020 07 31 The Current for July 13 2020 The Current CBC Radio July 13 2020 Retrieved 2020 07 31 a b WE Charity Moved Millions To Private Kielburger Company Canadaland 18 July 2020 Archived from the original on 2020 07 25 Retrieved 2020 07 31 a b c d e f g h Merali Farrah 2020 07 07 Former WE Charity employee says staff tried to silence her by rewriting anti racism speech CBC News Berthiaume Lee June 30 2020 Kielburger backtracks after saying PM s office contacted WE about 900M program CBC News Archived from the original on July 1 2020 Retrieved July 2 2020 Tasker John Paul July 3 2020 Federal government WE Charity agree to part ways on summer student grant program CBC News Archived from the original on July 3 2020 Retrieved July 3 2020 Smith Dale 3 July 2020 Bardish Chagger s office just announced that WE will no longer be administering the Canada Student Grant programme and that the decision was mutual cdnpoli Twitter Archived from the original on 3 July 2020 Retrieved 3 July 2020 Zimonjic Peter July 3 2020 Ethics watchdog launches probe of Trudeau over choice of WE Charity to run 900M student grant program CBC News Archived from the original on July 3 2020 Retrieved July 3 2020 Breen Kerri July 3 2020 Ethics commissioner launches investigation into Trudeau 900M WE Charity contract Global News Archived from the original on July 3 2020 Retrieved July 3 2020 McGregor Janyce 2020 07 09 PM s mother Margaret and brother Alexandre were both paid to speak at WE Charity events CBC News Retrieved 2020 07 09 McGregor Janyce 2020 07 10 Bill Morneau has family ties to WE Charity did not steer clear of cabinet discussion of contract CBC News Archived from the original on 2020 07 10 Retrieved 2020 07 10 Tories ask RCMP to launch criminal probe into Trudeau family s WE connections Global News Archived from the original on 2020 07 14 Retrieved 2020 07 16 Ontario government severs ties with WE Charity amid controversy Global News Archived from the original on 2020 08 01 Retrieved 2020 08 01 a b c Tumilty Ryan May 13 2021 Ethics commissioner clears Justin Trudeau in WE charity scandal National Post Retrieved May 14 2021 a b c Bond Meredith Stephanie Taylor May 13 2021 Trudeau cleared of wrongdoing in WE Charity scandal by ethics watchdog CityNews The Canadian Press Retrieved May 13 2021 a b Pearson Natalie Obiko May 13 2021 Trudeau cleared by ethics watchdog in WE Charity scandal BNN Bloomberg Retrieved May 14 2021 External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to We Charity Official website WE Charity misled donors about building schools in Kenya records show The Fifth Estate Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title WE Charity amp oldid 1153394585, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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