Social entrepreneurs are individuals are often defined as being ambitious, mission driven, strategic, resourceful, and results oriented. You wouldn’t be surprised to find these characteristics in university and high school students. But would you believe me if I told you that a twelve year old who possessed these very five characteristics established one of Canada’s most well known social enterprises?

You better start believing it. Craig Kielburger was just twelve years old when he and his friends formed the “Twelve-Twelve-Year-Olds” group that would eventually evolve to become “Free The Children” and “Me to We.” Today, Me to We is a large social enterprise that donates half of its profit to charity.

The organization is very well known for We Day, an event designed to motivate and inspire youth to become active for causes they believe in.

Craig Kielburger is now twenty-nine years old and is definitely results-oriented seeing as his social enterprise donated $2.5 million dollars worth of services in developing countries.

Craig’s story might seem one-in-a-million, but he believes differently. He believes that youth are capable of creating immense change and, after having heard him speak personally at We Day, I believe he is correct. Everyone wants to change the world in some way, and if anyone is going to do it, it’s going to be those who will be growing up to live in this world.

Picture Sources: Ambassadors.net | Siavash Ghazvinian