1937 Silver Hallmarked Bernardo Helpers League Membership Badge
Code: 16408
£20.00 Approx $25.09, €23.36, £20
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For sale is a Pre WW2 1937 Birmingham Silver Hallmarked Bernardo Helpers League Membership Badge.
Thomas John Barnardo was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1845. As a young man he moved to London to train as a doctor. When he arrived, he was shocked to find children living in terrible conditions, with no access to education. Poverty and disease were so widespread that one in five children died before their fifth birthday. When a cholera epidemic swept through the East End, leaving 3000 people dead and many orphaned children, the young Barnardo felt an urgent need to help.
His first step, in 1867, was to set up a ‘ragged school’ where children could get a free basic education. One evening a boy at the mission, Jim Jarvis, took Barnardo around the East End, showing him children sleeping on roofs and in gutters. What he saw affected him so deeply he decided to abandon his medical training and devote himself to helping children living in poverty.
This is in good condition.
This will be sent via Royal Mail 1st class signed for and dispatched within two working days.
