A young man from Nova Scotia who started a battle to end bullying is telling Newfoundland and Labrador students that they, like him, are capable of standing up to bullies.

Travis Price, 22, of Berwick, N.S., stood up to a student who bullied a new kid at his school five years ago. The incident spurred Price to co-found Pink Shirt Day - a campaign to raise awareness and put a stop to bullying.

Last February, 6.4 million people took part in Pink Shirt Day.

Price has been speaking to students across the province this week. On Wednesday, he was at Beaconsfield Junior High School in St. John's, where students were transfixed, hanging on every word the former victim of bullies had to say.

"I want them to see that they can do the exact same whether they are bullied, whether they are the popular kid, whatever their situation is, they're all capable of doing exactly what I did," Price explained after his presentation.

Stopping bullying not easy

But saying "stop" to your peers is easier said than done, according to Grade 9 student Pam Brown.

"Because you're seeing them every day and you want them to like you," said Brown. "So to go against what they say and if they're popular it's, like, difficult because you're, like, risking being unpopular."

However, student Skylar Jackson said even though it can be hard to stand up to bullies, it's important to do that to help victims.

"Because if they get bullied so much they could die, they could commit suicide," said Jackson.

"If people, if bystanders just stand up, then we might stop it," added another student, Curtis Hickman.

Price hopes even more people will take part in the next Pink Shirt Day, slated for Feb. 27, 2013.