Kailash Satyarthi

Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.

Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.

I dream for a world which is free of child labour, a world in which every child goes to school. A world in which every child gets his rights.

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.