decided to focus on child labor after reading an article in a children's

magazine about Pakistani children toiling 12 hours a day making soccer balls -- and in that way they have joined thousands of other children in the New York area and around the nation who are campaigning against child labor.

In what has become a children's crusade, they are distributing fliers at

shopping malls, writing letters to Congress and enlisting other students by

sending E-mail and setting up Web sites. They are washing cars, collecting

bottles and holding bake sales and walkathons to raise money to build schools and rehabilitation centers for former child workers in Pakistan and India.

The New York Times, December 25, 1996