The International Center on Child Labor, Washington, D.C. North American Secretariat of the Global March and the American Federation of Teachers organized a soccer match between the children from the DC Schools and child laborers coming from India, Chile, Nicaragua, Liberia, South Africa and Brazil. These children coming from different countries were victims of worst forms of slavery. They were rescued and brought into the rehabilitation centers managed by the partners of Global March.

The former child laborers played on teams that included students from Washington, D.C.'s, Bell Multicultural and Cardozo senior high schools. Professional players Marco Etcheverry and Craig Ziadie from the D.C. United and Ann Cook from the Washington Freedom served as the game's coaches and referee, expressing solidarity and support for the child laborers.

The soccer game was an opportunity to gain support for ending forced child labor and to bring the issue in the consciousness of the US public and policy domain. Raising awareness about the atrocities of forced child labor is the mission of ICCLE and the rescued child laborers are themselves now activists spreading awareness. There effort is to mobilize the political will and attention of the international community for enhanced commitments towards rehabilitation of child laborers in worst forms of working conditions and provision of compulsory quality primary education for all. ICCLE's effort to link with AFT in bringing the issue in the US public consciousness is for the fact that AFT represents some 1.2 million school teachers. The students from the two Washington, D.C., high schools have studied child labor issues using the AFT-created curriculum "Lost Futures: The Problem of Child Labor."