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  • Tags: Children - Institutional care - Jamaica

Miss Jamaica, Patsy Yuen helped brighten the annual KSAC treat by distributing Christmas presents

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"The Queen and the kids: One tiny tot comes in for special attention from Miss Jamaica, Patsy Yuen, at the Jamaica House part on Thursday for children from Maxfield Children's Home. Miss Yuen helped brighten the annual KSAC treat by distributing…

Maxfield Park Children's Home

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"Fine Gesture: Maxfield Park Children's Home Matron, Mrs. O'Conner Johnson, receiving a cheque for $200 from Flour Mills and Allied Industry Worker's Chief Delegate, Henry Brown, yesterday afternoon. The donation came from the workers' back pay,…

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.

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.

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."