30 April 2025

Horse carts

People of my age (73) would remember how cows, bullocks, horses and donkeys were used for transport without harming them.

People used to travel from one place to another using bullock and horse carts. Washermen used donkeys to carry dirty clothes collected from households, get them washed in local rivers and bring them back to their residences. On Sundays, they used to collect dirty clothes from households and bring the washed and ironed clothes. They used to apply starch to strengthen fabric. In this manner, there was a mutual trust between humans and animals. 

I have seen donkey carts in Ethiopia, Southern Africa and Cambodia.

This evening, NHK WORLD JAPAN TV CHANNEL telecast an interesting documentary on how a team from Japan help people in Senegal, West Africa, in showing how donkey carts can be used to generate electricity. Like in most developing countries, electric power is expensive in Senegal.

Let me share the documentary here.



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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.