Lillian Wald

Henry Street Settlement began with Wald and fellow nurse Mary Brewster working on New York's Lower East Side in 1893. Care in people's homes grew into an organisation with social services, classes and places for children to play. Donors such as Jacob Schiff helped provide buildings, while nurses and neighbourhood participants supplied the daily work. The case makes a broad social purpose concrete: an institution can bring several kinds of help into a community and adapt as its needs change.