3. INDEX GANDHI
.WHO WAS MOHANDAS GANDHI?
.CHILDHOOD .HOW MOHANDAS GANDHI
WANTED TO STOP WAR?
.WHY GANDHI HAD A HUNGER
PROTEST?
4. WHO WAS GANDHI?
Mohandas Gandhi was an Indian revolutionary and
religious leader who used his religious power for political
and social reform. He was born on
October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, India
5. CHILDHOOD
Gandhi studied law when he was 20 years .He was not
the best student in all his school. When he was a kid he
didn't fight for peace. He studied in a school named
Alfred. On 1919 Mahatma Gandhi organized the first non
violent organization against British rule in India.
6. HOW DID GANDHI WANT TO STOP
WAR?
When still alive, Mohandas Gandhi had many
admirers, both in India and abroad. But his martyrdom in
1948 made him an even greater symbol of peace. Twenty-one
years later, he was commemorated on this double-sized
United Kingdom postage stamp.But a strange thing is
that they never give him a nobel peace prize .
7. WHY GANDHI HAD A HUNGER
PROTEST?
Gandhi had a hunger strike because he wanted
to demonstrate war that he would not eat
until they stop war. War stopped.
9. Index
WHO WAS NELSON MANDELA?
CHILDHOOD
WHY DID HE WANT FREEDOM?
WHY HE WAS IN JAIL? & LIFE IN JAIL.
WHY DID MANDELA GET THE NOBEL
PEACE PRIZE?
10. Who was Nelson Mandela?
Nelson Mandela was born in July 18, 1918 in
Mvezo, a tiny village in Transkei. He’s original
name is Rolihlahla that in Xhosa means:
troublemaker. But when he went to school the
teacher called him Nelson.
11. Childhood
He was born in Transkei , South Africa with a Thembu tribe . His father was a
tribal chief. When he was 7 years old his father decided to send him to a
school, it was a mission school. His teacher put him another name, an english
name, she called him Nelson because at that times English people ruled.
When he was 9 years old his father died so his mom took him to live with a
friend of his father, in a village of Mqhekezweni. When he was 16 years old
uncle Jongi sent him to a Clarkebury boarding school. At the age of 21 he
went to a university of black people in the Eastern Cape.
12. Why he wanted freedom?
He wanted freedom because in 1948 the government
started passing laws that introduced apartheid. White
people lived in suburbs while black people lived in
townships. The government also built separate schools,
churches, cinemas, for white and for black. In 1952 he led
a protest. The government didn’t drop their apartheid
laws.
13. Why he was in jail? & Life in jail.
He was in jail because he left the country illegally. So he was sent five
years to prison. But when he was on the fifth month of prison he went on trial
again.
Two years later they found that eight of them were guilty. They told they
would be all life in prison. The jail was in Robben Island. Twenty years passed.
In 1982 he moved to another jail to Poormoor in Cape Town. In the 11 of
February of 1990 he walked out of jail. He had been 27 years in jail!
14. Why he get the Nobel peace prize?
Nelson Mandela got the Nobel peace prize because he
fought peacefully and did all that he could so coloured
people could have the same rights as all people. He won
that prize in the year 1993.At that time he didn’t win it
alone, he shared the prize with a man called Frederik
Willem de Klerk.
15. FIGHTING FOR LIBERTY.
Black or White
No matter what,
Rights are the same for everyone.
27 years in jail full of pain
Fighting in a peacefully way.
By: Luna Milberg & Agustina Kohan Miller
16. One man many names
He had many aims,
and he carry out all.
That’s why he had many names,
and reasons for all.
Some people called him father,
some people grandfather.
He fought for peace,
this is what he really is
By: Luna Quesada and Siena Torres.
17. POEM:
Gandhi was a prime minister not as his sister.
Gandhi was kind.
Gandhi had a nice wife.
Gandhi was good ,he was not in bad mood.
He did not fight with a knife as knights.
