Underage overachiever, Bilaal Rajan (12), proves age is no barrier to authoritative a difference. This year's International Volunteer Week (April 19 - 25, 2009), Bilaal will go barefeet everywhere for this anniversary to advance his latest attack for apple change. My ambition is to affect one actor accouchement to crop action and advice actualize a added peaceful and caring world, I ambition adolescence to acquisition their passion, get complex and accomplish a aberration in the lives of others. This action is a alarm to action And if humans ask me why I don't accept shoes, I'll acquaint them because millions of accouchement throughout the apple don't either.
Richmond Hill, Ontario -- 12 year old boy, Bilaal Rajan, has humans of all ages blame off their shoes and traveling barefoot in abutment of his latest attack for authoritative change. Rajan is arch his own action for International Volunteer Week by traveling barefoot from April 19-25, 2009.
Rajan At School Barefoot
Rajan's Making Change Barefoot Initiative is accepted to be one of the better celebrations of volunteerism in North America. Participants cover Nigel Fisher, President of Unicef Canada, Orca Book Publishers, award-winning biographer Eric Walters, associates of the World Partnership Walk Committee, and acceptance from Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary and Montreal. The abstraction is aswell accepting drive with humans in countries as far abroad as Australia, Afghanistan, England, Switzerland, Thailand, Kenya, Malawi and Tanzania. People can go to Bilaal's website at www.makingchangenow.com to apprentice added about the action and assurance up.
For his part, Rajan has arrive the accepted accessible afterward his advance to footfall up with naked feet. This, he believes will advice them to bigger accept the struggles faced by underpriviledged accouchement in the apple abounding of whom cannot acquiesce shoes, let abandoned appear school.
This already appear author, fundraiser, activist and Unicef Canada agent is already a austere force to be reckoned with. His book, Making Change: Tips from an Underage Overachiever (160 pages, Orca Book Publishers), is an operating chiral for authoritative a difference, no amount what your age.
At 4, Rajan stepped up (shoes on) to crop on the problems of the apple affairs clementine oranges door-to-door adopting money for victims of the 2001 convulsion in Gujarat, India. Since then, he has aloft millions for assorted causes. At 8, he founded Hands for Help, an alignment committed to deepening acquaintance of children's issues and fundraising for those in need. In 2005, he was called and charcoal an official Child Ambassador for Unicef Canada. Bilaal is aswell featured in a documentary, Yes We Can, produced by In Sync Video, which is premiering at 11:30 AM on April 19, 2009 at the Sprockets Film Festival in Toronto, area the attack is planned to clearly bang off.
Rajan believes that in these arduous bread-and-butter times, we charge to ability out even more, advance our time, and advice those in need. "My ambition is to affect one actor accouchement to crop action and advice actualize a added peaceful and caring world, " he says. "I ambition adolescence to acquisition their passion, get complex and accomplish a aberration in the lives of others."
"This action is a alarm to action," he says. "And if humans ask me why I don't accept shoes, I'll acquaint them because millions of accouchement throughout the apple don't either."
Proceeds from sales of Rajan's book go to Unicef and added programs benefiting accouchement about the world. For added advice on Rajan's Barefoot Initiative or his book, go to www.makingchangenow.com or www.bilaalrajan.com.
For interviews or media inquiries, contact: Mr. Sean Cain
Telephone Number: 905-849-8585
Web website address: www.makingchangenow.com or www.bilaalrajan.com
