Your Students Have the Power to Change the World

Facts about Slavery:

27 million people are in modern-day slavery across the world*
There are more people in slavery now than during the trans-Atlantic slave trade*
800,000 people are trafficked across international boarders each year*
50% of all victims are children*
17,500 foreign nationals are trafficked into the U.S. every year
91 cities in the United States report cases of trafficking

*Source: www.amazingchange.com

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Leslie Speyers

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Zach Hunter is a fifteen-year-old abolitionist and activist who spends much of his time working to end slavery around the world. He's the student spokesperson for the Amazing Change campaign, which is inspired by the film Amazing Grace. Last year he spoke to almost a half a million people and is educating and inspiring students everywhere to make a change in the world. He also founded Loose Change to Loosen Chains, a student-run effort to help raise money to free slaves.

Zach is the author of Be the Change—a book that will let your students find out how Zach is making a difference and how they can make changes to the things that they see wrong with our world.

Watch Zach's Interviews

ABC Good Morning America: "Just 15, He Leads Fight to Abolish Slavery" (Mar. 15, 2007)	CBN: "A Modern-Day Teen Abolitionist"

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"I'm Zach Hunter and I'm an Abolitionist"	CNN from "Faces of Faith" (Feb. 18, 2007)

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Downloads/Links

Watch the Dove Awards, where Zach Hunter recently introduced Chris Tomlin, who performed Amazing Grace
See Zach on CNN as a CNN Hero
Just 15, He Leads Fight to Abolish Slavery [ABC News: Good Morning America]
New Fight, Old Foe: Slavery [The Christian Science Monitor]
"Ending Slavery...in the Twenty-First Century" Article
Breakaway March Issue Cover and Feature Article
Interview with Steve Carter from Mars Hill (3.17MB MP3)
Mom Cries for End of Child Slavery, Teen Abolitionist Promotes Cause [Florida Baptist Witness]
Meet Zach Hunter—The Teenage Abolitionist [Christian Today]

Sample Excerpts from Be the Change:

Things to Think About

"Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity."
— I Timothy 4:12

"God has a plan to help bring justice to the world—and his plan is us."
— Gary Huagen, President of International Justice Mission

"There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread."
— Mother Teresa (1910-1997), humanitarian, friend of the poor, and servant of God

"They charge me with fanaticism. If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large."
— William Wilberforce (1759-1853), British politician and abolitionist