CHYS 2P38 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Charity Organization Society, Thomas John Barnardo, Eglantyne Jebb
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Dr. thomas barnardo and the emergence of child saving . Present central thesis/idea/reflection that will be interesting to an audience. Went to africa and failed because he was too aggressive with the patients so they sent him back home and failed as a missionary. Barnardo scheme to send children tot canada. Europe and wanted to send them to better places. Someone from middle class looked at these people as they wanted to help rise they"re standard of living. Take children as orphans from families and sent them to canada as foster children or were documented to families in canada or australia. Could trace child back to a barnardo child . Early awareness that charities required funding to operate. Didn"t raise a lot of taxes and child welfare services were funded on basis of charity because they were scarce. Barnardo presented the idea of charities and how you have to fund them.