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  • Tags: Children - Institutional care - Jamaica

Filthy conditions outside the St. Patrick place of safety in Rae Town

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"Is this what we want for our kids in the international year of the child? The 38 boys being housed at the St. Patrick's Place of Safety in Rae Town have to suffer daily from the stench, mosquito bites and flies are bred by this stagnant pool that…

Country singer Johnny Cash

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"Country singer, Johnny Cash, has donated thousands of dollars over the past three years to the SOS Children's Village, at Barrett Town, near Montego Bay. Whenever he is in Montego Bay, he always takes time out to visit the village and play with the…

Christmas 1966 - The Phyll's Court Place of Safety

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Children, members of staff and visitors at Phyll's Court Place of Safety, having a Christmas treat in the yard.

Cart wheels

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"Cart wheels anyone? Youngsters on the Summer Youth Programme at Fort Clarence Beach abandon themselves to fun and gaiety. Turning cart wheels is just another of the activities they find time to do so. Here boys from the Olivier Place of Safety "do…