The document discusses two international personalities - Kailash Satyarthi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It summarizes their contributions:
Kailash Satyarthi won the Nobel Peace Prize for rescuing over 80,000 child laborers in India and founding organizations dedicated to ending child labor.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led the American civil rights movement and was a pioneer of nonviolent protest. He organized the March on Washington and delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech calling for racial equality.
Both figures worked to improve human rights and welfare through nonviolent activism, and are recognized globally for their humanitarian efforts.
3. SCANNING
• The figures who have given great
contribution to the welfare of the
humankind are known as the
international personalities. Some
examples of such personalities are
Kailash Satyarthi and Dr. Martin Luther
King. We need to learn many things
from them as our inspirations.
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4. FUNCTIONS DONE BY THEM
SURF IN INTERNET
•Martin Luther King
•Kailash Sathyarthi
•Malala Yousafzai
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5. MEANING OF INTERNATIONAL PERSONALITIES
• Many people come in this world and go
unnoticed. They have not left anything
special worth taking about and worth
following. But some people come, do really
good for the mankind and are always
remembered even after their death. They
work towards improving the lot of many
others rather than their own. They are
adorable, inspiring and respectful. Such few
people become internationally renowned
because of their noble deeds and
invaluable service to the mankind.
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6. MEANING OF INTERNATIONAL PERSONALITIES
• What they have done is not for their own
benefit but something greater that adds to
the welfare of the entire human race.
Therefore, their popularity spreads beyond
their community and nation. Such people
become international personalities. We should
appreciate their deeds, pay due respects to
them and follow their footprints. In this
lesson, we shall read briefly about two
internationally celebrated personalities of very
different parts and time periods of the world,
and of very different backgrounds: Kailash
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7. KAILASH SATYARTHI (1954-
• He is a renowned Indian child rights
activist and the winner of Nobel Peace
Prize in 2014. He is the founder of an
organization dedicated towards the
eradication of child labor and
rehabilitation of the rescued former child
workers. Child labor is a major problem in
India where millions of young children are
engaged in various forms of work and not
getting education.
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8. KAILASH SATYARTHI (1954-
• Satyarthi has been working as a children’s
rights activist from the past many years
and has liberated over 80,000 child
laborers since 1980. He formed the Save
Childhood Movement to create awareness
about this social evil and to rescue
children from labor. He has been honored
with several awards for his relentless
humanitarian work, including the Nobel
Peace Prize for 2014 which he shares with
the Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzay.
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9. LIFE
• He studied electrical engineering in a Bhopal college
and earned a post-graduate diploma in high-voltage
engineering.
• After his graduation he began working as an
engineer.
• He wanted to help people, especially the poor
children who worked as laborers and he quit his job
for this cause.
• He started a journal called ‘The Struggle Shall
Continue’ in 1980 in order to create awareness
about the problem of child labor.
• To tackle this problem, he formed the Bachpan
Bachao Andolan (BBA), a movement dedicated
towards eradication of human trafficking and
bonded child labor.
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10. LIFE
• He worked to educate the society about the evils of child
labor and focused the importance of helping the children
and providing them a chance to live normal and healthy
life.
• The success of the BBA led to the creation of the South
Asian Coalition on Child Servitude (SACCS) in 1989.
• Bal Ashram was formed in Rajasthan where the newly-
rescued children are taught basic skills.
• In 1998, he led the Global march against child labor. The
march was a beginning movement to motivate
individuals and organizations to do fight against child
labor.
• He worked as a member of the UNESCO’s Education for
All and has addressed the U.N.’s General Assembly,
• International Labor Conference, and U.N. Human Rights
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11. AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS
• He received the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
Award in 1995 for significant contributions he had
made to human rights in India.
• Satyarthi, along with Pakistani teenage activist
Malala Yousufzai won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize
"for their struggle against the suppression of
children and young people and for the right of all
children to education".
• Named Harvard Person of the Year in 2014
• US Defenders of Democracy Award in 2009
• Golden Flag Award (Netherlands) in 1998
• The Aachener International Peace Award (Germany)
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12. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING
• Martin Luther King Jr. is considered to be one
of the most important historic figures of
America. He struggled to bring about
freedom, equality and respect for all in the
US. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on
January 15, 1929 in Atlanta. King graduated
from Morehouse College in 1948 with a
degree in Sociology. He further received a
Bachelor's of Divinity in 1951 and then a Ph.D.
from Boston College in 1955.
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13. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
• Martin Luther King, Jr. was appointed the pastor of
the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery,
Alabama. It was while serving as pastor of the
church that Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to
give up her seat on a bus to a white man. This
occurred on December 1, 1955. By December 5,
1955, the Montgomery Bus Boycott had begun.
During this time, African-Americans refused to ride
the public bus system in Montgomery. The boycott
lasted 382 days. In the end on December 21, 1956,
the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation on
public transportation was illegal. He was made the
leader of various protests and was arrested
numerous times. He was a part of many nonviolent
protests as he helped lead the fight for
desegregation and equal rights.
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14. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
•On August 28, 1963, the March on
Washington led by King and other
Civil Rights Leaders took place. It was
the largest demonstration of its kind
in Washington, D.C. up to that time
and approximately 250,000
demonstrators were involved. It was
during this March that King gave his
historical "I Have a Dream" speech
while speaking from the Lincoln
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15. DR. MARTIN LUTHER
• In 1964, he was honored as the youngest person ever
to receive the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of thirty-
five. He gave the entire amount of the prize money
to help with the Civil Right movement. Between 1965
and 1968, King continued with his protest work and
fight for Civil Rights. He was actively critic of poverty
and supported equal human rights, food, shelter,
education, health reach, equal pay, etc. Many
powerful people and organizations were angry at
King for this. They spread lies and wanted to make
people go against King. And one such person who
didn’t want King to succeed shot him after a rally.
Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis,
Tennessee on April 4, 1968.
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16. MARTIN …
• Dr. Martin Luther King had seen a dream of
social revolution. He raised voice for end of
ethnic divisions and end of discrimination,
suppression from white people, equality,
freedom and honor, and liberation from
violent war. A did this by promoting non-
violent social revolution. The whole world still
praises his work and considers him to be one
of the most influential figures of the last
century.
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17. HOMEWORK
• Prepare a report about any Noble Peace Prize
winner who motivates you much. You can talk
to your teachers/elders. If necessary, I learn
from any books in your or surf the internet.
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