Indian Arrival Day - Showing Altruistic Love and Compassion

Tue, 04 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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Many of us are aware that May 5th is a public holiday in Guyana to commemorate the arrival of the first shiploads of East Indians to what was then British Guiana. There were many ships that followed after that fateful year of 1838 and continued to 1917. Can you picture your great-great-great-grandmother or grandfather disembarking from the Hesperus or Whitby? They have finally arrived at their destination with high hopes of employment - “light work,” housing, and a better life than the one they left behind. This was what they were promised.

Altruistic-Love on Late Blooms

Indian Arrival Day - Showing Altruistic Love and Compassion