Shuna Red Cross Home was situated in Eastview Ave, Leura and was opened as a home for girls in 1925 by the Australian Red Cross. In either 1945 or 1946 the girls were moved to Kippilaw, also at Leura, while boys stayed at Shuna. Shuna closed in around 1951 and was later sold to the Church of England for youth activities.
Shuna was loaned to the Red Cross, rent free, by Dame Eadith Walker, a noted philanthropist and Red Cross executive member.
Shuna had the same aims as Juong at Faulconbridge. It was a home for children from tuberculosis-affected families, which were sometimes called Preventoriums.
In either 1945 or 1946 the girls were moved to Kippilaw, also at Leura, while boys stayed at Shuna. Shuna closed in around 1951 and was then bought by the Church of England for youth activities.
The buildings that were Shuna Red Cross Home burnt down in the catastrophic Leura bushfires of 1957. Two houses have since been built on the site and one of these has been named Shuna.
From
1925
To
c. 1951
1925 - c. 1951
Shuna Red Cross Home was situated in Eastview Avenue, Leura, New South Wales (Building Demolished)
