Singapore Po Leung Kuk

Singapore Po Leung Kuk

In 1878, a group of local Chinese in Hong Kong presented a petition to the Governor of Hong Kong, John Pope Hennessy to set up the Po Leung Kuk to rescue the kidnapped victims. The main objective of Po Leung Kuk is to care for the young and protect the innocent.

The Singapore Po Leung Kuk was established in 1888 and began as a single room with six beds and was meant for permanent juvenile residents. This was expanded to 120 beds in 1896 with new accommodation in 1928 providing for 300 residents. From 1931, accommodation was provided for in the Mental Hospital for 'moral imbeciles and feeble-minded girls' unsuitable for accommodation in a Po Leung Kuk Home. [Sickness and the State: Health and Illness in Colonial Malaya, 1870-1940 By Lenore Manderson Published by Cambridge University Press, 2002; ISBN 0521524482, 9780521524483; pp. 192, 193]

During the British Military Administration the Po Leung Kuk Welfare Home in Singapore was turned into a training school to reform girls who had fallen or been coerced into prostitution during the war. [The End of Empire and the Making of Malaya By T. N. Harper Published by Cambridge University Press, 2001; ISBN 0521004659, 9780521004657; p. 64]

References

ee also

*Po Leung Kuk
* [http://www.poleungkuk.org.hk/ Hong Kong Po Leung Kuk website.]
*Penang Po Leung Kuk
*Kuala Lumpur Po Leung Kuk
*Singapore Po Leung Kuk
*The Penang Po Leung Kuk: Chinese Women, Prostitution and a Welfare Organisation By Neil Khor Jin Keong and Khoo Keat Siew


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