BARNARDO'S HOMES

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 147, 18 December 1915, Page 6

BARNARDO'S HOMES

YOUNG HELPERS' LEAGUE.

~ Miss Cosley and Miss Carden, two wardens of the Young Helpers' League, which works for Dr. Barnardo's many homes, are. at present in Wellington, and have been addressing the schools. Since Misses Bactiel Norton (general secretary) and E. A. Woodhead have been m the Dominion they have enlisted the help of over 1500 members as Companions, and have'formed 340 centres of the League in this country. The Young ■Helpers' League, is a voluntary union (composed .principally of young people, but also including; a, large number of senior members) of friends of the children, from happy homes all over the world. It is divided into two sections : the Junior Companions, who are under 18 years of age, agree to do all they can to help the crippled, blind, deaf and. dumb, and sick children in Dr. Barnardo's Homes. The Senior Companions, who are eighteen years of age- or over, also offer.willing seryice on behalf of the. league.

•The object of the league is the support of a cot by guaranteeing at least £30. per annum. Already there are in the Babies' Castle 491 cots supported by the league, .which also helps to maintain healthy children at the Barnardo Hprnes and contribute towards the migration work. Queen Alexandra is patron of the league. The league income for 1914 was £23,980, a falling off of £3000 from the two immediately preceding years. Children members of, the league are asked to help in both money and effort. 'Through their instrumentality, much good has already been done, but much more remains to be done. Her Excellency the Countess of Liverpool has consented to become patroness- of all branches formed in the Dominion. The league, both directly and indirectly, is helping the cause of the Belgians in England, as well as the distressed poor (and there will be many destitute children before the war 'is over), so that the appeal for sympathy and interest in .the work can hardly be passed by. That the league can help in quite a substantial way was shown- by the fact that at the end of the 22nd year of its existence in Britain tha Companions had contributed to the homes over £300.000.