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TitleAn American Red Cross worker teaching games to the children in the Garden of the Convent du Sacre Coeur, near Paris. Before the war the Sisters of the convent cared for 30 girls from poor families of the neighborhood teaching them housework, etc. to enable them to earn a living. When war came the sisters fooered half their convent for a 50 bed hospital for soldiers, taking the children into their own inadequate quarters to make room, and nursing the soldiers themselves. They were unable to raise enough money to continue the work until they appealed to the American Red Cross which now contribute the supplies needed, clothing, sheets, blankets, etcTypeStill ImageCollectionPlaceFranceCould not render: bf:code bflc:marcKey Authorized Access PointHine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940 An American Red Cross worker teaching games to the children in the Garden of the Convent du Sacre Coeur, near Paris. Before the war the Sisters of the convent cared for 30 girls from poor families of the neighborhood teaching them housework, etc. to enable them to earn a living. When war came the sisters fooered half their convent for a 50 bed hospital for soldiers, taking the children into their own inadequate quarters to make room, and nursing the soldiers themselves. They were unable to raise enough money to continue the work until they appealed to the American Red Cross which now contribute the supplies needed, clothing, sheets, blankets, etc