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  • Tags: Children - Institutional care - Jamaica

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…

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.

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…

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…

Kids on the Summer Youth Treat enjoying ice cream

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"Ice cream is delicious anywhere you have it but this group of kids on the Summer Youth treat thought perhaps that with all the wind and sand around this wall was the ideal place to sit for a breather and ice cream."

Lyndale Home for Girls - Highgate

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A view of the Lyndale Home for Girls, established by the Friends' Union in Jamaica. The Home officially opened in January 1922 and was formerly known from 1904 as the Happy Grove Industrial School for East Indian Girls.

Lyndale Home for Girls, Highgate

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A section of the two-storey building of the Lyndale Home for Girls, established by the Friends' Union in Jamaica. The Home officially opened in January 1922 and was formerly known from 1904 as the Happy Grove Industrial School for East Indian Girls.