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Centenary of United Aborigines Mission Bomaderry
Bomaderry Childrens Home was the birthplace of the Stolen Generation in NSW. It is a place of great pain but also great friendships and endurance and survival. This is an Australian Indigenous Celebration that is not to be missed.
Survival and pain celebrated A HUGE crowd is starting to descend on the region ahead of tomorrow's centenary of the United Aborigines Mission Bomaderry Homes. The birthplace of the Stolen Generations in Australia, the Bomaderry Homes was formed after a missionary Miss Thompson took charge of six young Aboriginal children orphaned when their mother died. A short time later the UAM bought a small cottage on two and a quarter acres in Bomaderry, and the Bomaderry Homes began. The number of children soon grew, and after the first cottage was expanded and second was bought on an adjoining block, then three more cottages were added by 1948. Hundreds of children passed through the Bomaderry Homes as they continued to operate through to the 1970s, and many of those former homies, as they were called, are expected to return to the region for tomorrow's official centenary. Organiser Sonny Simms from the Nowra Local Aboriginal Land Council said while many former residents had mixed feelings about the homes, and some simply hated the place, the centenary would be a celebration. "We're not here to point the finger at anyone, we're here to celebrate," Mr Simms said. "We're celebrating because we have survived." |
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