Cootamundra Domestic Training Home for Aboriginal Girls facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Cootamundra Aboriginal Girls' Training Home
Driveway leading to western wing
Location	39 Rinkin Street, Cootamundra, Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council, New South Wales, Australia
Built	1912–1974
Architect	Morell and Kemp
Owner	Young Local Aboriginal Land Council
New South Wales Heritage Register
Official name: Cootamundra Aboriginal Girls' Training Home; Cootamundra Girls' Home; Aboriginal Girls' Training Home; Bimbadeen Bible College;
Type	state heritage (built)
Designated	17 February 2012
Reference no.	1873
Type	Place of significance
Category	Aboriginal
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The Cootamundra Domestic Training Home for Aboriginal Girls, commonly known as "Bimbadeen" and Cootamundra Girls' Home, located at Cootamundra, New South Wales operated by the New South Wales Aborigines Welfare Board from 1911 to 1968 to provide training to girls forcibly taken from their families under the Aborigines Protection Act 1909. These girls were members of the Stolen generations and were not allowed any contact with their families, being trained to work as domestic servants.

Reports of girls being abused were related in Bringing Them Home, the 1997 report into the Stolen Generations.

The building that housed the Home was later taken over by the Aboriginal Evangelical Fellowship as a Christian vocational, cultural and agricultural training centre called Bimbadeen College. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 17 February 2012.

Images for kids

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  Historic photo of the Training Home

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  Centenary monument, 2015

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  Front of the hospital; the original front verandah was enclosed as a dormitory

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  The kitchen is in the foreground