Sacred Heart Orphanage

Sacred Heart Orphanage

Eyre Road

Crystal Brook

SA

Australia

Provider: Catholic – Good Samaritan Sisters

Year Opened: 1940

Year Closed: 1979

 

For further information about this Home, please refer to: A Piece of the Story

Provided residential and educational care for boys aged 4 -12 and girls aged 4 -15

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This orphanage was originally established to cater for children in need whose fathers had been killed during World War 2. Other than the children’s home at the Umeewarra Mission near Port Augusta, it was the only home in the north of the state. In the 1970s an agreement was signed with the Department of Community Welfare and government assistance was provided to the institution.

This funding allowed the orphanage to accommodate boys and girls between the ages of 4 and 15 who needed short or long term care. It normally catered for up to twenty children under the care of three staff members. While living at the orphanage, the children were educated at the Parish School, St Stanislaus.

The orphanage building still exists today and the premises operate as the Sacred Heart Home, a boarding hostel for students.

Image courtesy of Graham

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