Eventide Home Fire in Jamaica - Barbara Nelson
Eventide Home Fire in Jamaica - Barbara Nelson https://youtu.be/8v_iGC-ZxU4 The Eventide Home was opened in Jamaica on July 1, 1870. At that time Jamaica was a British crown colony. The Home was a wooden building constructed specifically to house elderly women. As time passed, however, destitute crippled and handicapped old men and children were also placed there along with the elderly women. In the first year that Eventide existed about 160 old women lived there -this information comes from an article written by Daive Dunkley in the Jamaica National Heritage Trust. Eventide is the most tragic display of human neglect our country has ever known. Let us never repeat it again.” These are the words of Father Richard Ho Lung, founder of the Roman Catholic Charity “Missionaries of the Poor”. “Eventide is the most tragic display of human neglect our country has ever known. Let us never repeat it again.” “We all don’t get wealthy, travel the wo...