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Millicent Neverson |
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“Many of these people cannot reach the sky-high rentals, others dare not attempt to try and so live in with others, which means many huddling together in few rooms. Deplorable, and to think that children are with them. This picture is not overdrawn, I assure you.” “When you gentlemen drive about and see the lovely cottages and palatial buildings you no doubt delight in the beauty of it all; but you do not know that some poor mother is ashamed to take even a case visitor in what she calls home, for it is in a dark basement, in which little air finds its way.” —Letter to Parliament, urging parliamentarians to take action to remedy substandard housing conditions. The Bermuda Recorder, July 11, 1950
“It has been an uphill fight, and oftimes a discouraging one, but seeing the need for home life for children, some of whom never know what the term meant, we smile and carry on.”—Letter to the editor, Bermuda Recorder, February 4, 1953
It used to be much easier. Nowadays there are too many distractions for children. So of course, it’s much harder for them to concentrate. But I’m very proud of my children. Some of them have distinguished themselves.” —Royal Gazette Weekly, January 8, 1956 “Mothers had to go to work just after the war, and children were being left on their own. They couldn’t attend Guide meetings because they couldn’t get in at home until their mother arrived. It was at this time that juvenile delinquency began to rear its ugly head. I started The Haven and rescued those poor little children. I wanted them to see that life was worth living.”—Bermuda Sun, January 9, 1964 |
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