Let's March - Part 1 (SSC - Std.10) Semi-English

1. The speaker feels honoured to recite a mantra from the ancient texts, Vedas. 2. The speaker describes his journey from India to Norway is a connect between the two centres of global peace and brotherhood, ancient and modern. 3. The terrible thing that the Sudanese child, who was kidnapped by extremist militia was forced to kill his friends and family as his first training lesson. 4. Satyarthi refuses to accept that (1) the world is so poor, when just one week of global military expenditure can bring all the children to classrooms (2) that all the laws and constitutions, police and judges are unable to protect our children, (3) that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom. 5. The only aim in life for Kailash Satyarthi is that every child is free to be a child, free to grow and develop, free to eat, sleep and see daylight, free to laugh and cry, free to play and learn, free to go to school and free to dream. 6. The signs of progress that the speaker mentions are reduced number of out-of-school children by half, reduced the number of child labourers by a third, reduced child mortality and malnutrition and have prevented millions of child deaths. 7. The social role the three daughters playing are rising up and choosing peace over violence, tolerance over extremism and courage over fear.