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A Bit of History:

Thomas John Barnardo was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1845. As a young man he moved to London to train as a doctor.

At the time, poverty and disease were so widespread that one in five children died before their fifth birthday. After a cholera epidemic swept through London’s East End, leaving 3,000 people dead and many children orphaned, Barnardo knew that the children left behind needed help. 

In 1867, he set up a ‘ragged school’ where children could get a free basic education. One of the boys at the school, Jim Jarvis, opened Barnardo’s eyes to the hardship being faced by children around the East End, where children went to sleep on roofs and in gutters. What he saw affected him so deeply, he gave up on his medical training to focus all his energy on helping children living in poverty.

In 1870, Barnardo opened his first home for boys where the boys were able to live and learn carpentry, metalwork, and shoemaking, and get help getting into apprenticeships. 

When the home first opened, there was a limit to the number of boys who could stay there. But when an 11-year-old boy was found dead of malnutrition and exposure two days after being told the home was full, Barnardo vowed never to turn another child away again. 

At the time, Barnardo’s work was radical because the Victorians saw poverty as shameful, and the result of laziness or bad choices. But Barnardo refused to discriminate between the ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ poor. He accepted all children, regardless of race, disability, or circumstance. 

Barnardo believed that every child deserved the best possible start in life, whatever their background. This philosophy still guides our work with children, young people, and families today. 

For more information visit barnyards.org.uk 

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