Hopewood Home

Hopewood Home

201 Centennial Road

Bowral

NSW

Australia

Provider: L O Bailey

Year Opened: 1944

Year Closed: 1970

 

Hopewood was a unique children’s home operated by the Youth Welfare Association of Australia which was founded by Leslie Owen Bailey. Bailey gathered 86 babies from unmarried mothers from and raised them at Hopewood using his principles of ‘natural health’. He fed them a vegetarian diet of mostly raw food, never allowed vaccination and avoided modern medicine.

 

For further information about this Home, pelase refer to:  Connecting Kin.

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