Black and white photograph showing two female missionaries working for the Methodist Missionary Society at their hospital at Ama Achara in southeast Nigeria. They sit on a rug with two small Nigerian children and three babies. Two other babies sit on a bench behind them. The hospital at Ama Achara took in many motherless and abandoned children, particularly twin babies who were considered to be unlucky in traditional Nigerian culture. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital.
Health services Missionary work Orphans Church work with orphans Nurses Infants Primitive Methodist Missionary Society Methodist Missionary Society Group portraits
Time Period
1930/1940
Place
Abia Africa Nigeria Umuahia medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
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