Camps in operation (7 gen 1961 anni – 1 ottob 1964 anni)

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Kendall Camp Jan 7, 1961— Mar 15, 1963
Camp Matecumbe July 1961— October 1964
Florida City Camp October 1961— June 1966

On January 7th, 1961, Dade County leased the Kendall facilities to the Catholic Welfare Bureau for a dollar a year. It had been the County’s home for Black children. The County had desegregated its facilities the previous summer.

Camp Matecumbe was located on a wooded 165-acre tract at SW 137 Avenue 120 Street in South West Dade. It was formerly a summer youth camp, owned and operated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Miami. It was occupied by 17 and 18-year-old Pedro Pan boys in July 1961, when Camp Kendall became overcrowded. Initially, the camp only had 60 boys housed in a sizeable barracks-style building furnished with bunk beds. But as the number of Pedro Pans arriving in the U.S. continued to increase, the Florida Department of Public Welfare approved the use of army tents. The camp became a facility for teenage boys at large. Subsequently, a building project began, and with time the use of tents was gradually phased out.

Camp Matecumbe was closed in October 1964, when Roman Catholic Bishop Coleman F. Carroll of the Diocese of Miami ordered all shelters to be consolidated at Camp Opa-Locka. Like Camp Kendall, Camp Matecumbe was an Operation Pedro Pan transit station. In November 2003, Camp Matecumbe was purchased from the Archdiocese of Miami by Dade County's Parks and Recreation Department, using Pedro Pan alumni's grants and funds, and turned into a public park.

The Florida City Camp for Cuban Children was the largest Operation Pedro Pan shelters and transit stations. It was created and operated by the Cuban Children's Program of the Diocese of Miami's Catholic Welfare Bureau. It served between 1961 and 1965 as a temporary shelter and processing facility to relocate Operation Pedro Pan unaccompanied refugee girls and pre-teen boys to numerous foster care facilities throughout the United States.

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