23 August 2024

International Day for Abolition of Slavery

Today is the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery as designated by the United Nations Organisation. 

Interestingly, abolition of slavery in the US paved the way for recruitment of workers from India to sugar plantations in South Africa, West Indies, Pacific Islands etc. Writers such as Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe etc. and statesmen such as Abraham Lincoln and our Shree Mahatma Gandhiji etc. were very involved in anti slavery movements.

Let us pay our tributes to these people. 


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I am a retired K-12 Education Management Professional. I have worked at different levels in K-12 school systems, textbook publishing, elearning and Education NGOs. I have held memberships in The Association for Science Education (UK), American Association of Physics Teachers and The Malaysian Institute of Physics. I hold a 1st class B Sc Degree in Physics followed by B Ed [English and Physical Science] and M A [Childcare and Education] degrees. My published works include 59 articles in teacher development magazines in India and the US and a book entitled `Creative Classrooms and Child Friendly Schools' (listed in Amazon). This book is almost an anecdotal account of my professional experience in six countries (including Cambodia where I worked as Technical Adviser to the Ministry of Education, Youth And Sports). I served as mentor in the Certificate of Teaching Mastery Program offered by Teachers Without Borders.