Our mission is to discover and network with individuals connected to Hong Kong orphanages and children homes such as,
Fanling
Babies Home, Pine Hill Babies Home,
Shatin Babies Home, Precious Blood Babies Home in the New Territories, Evangel
Children's Home, Ling Yuet Sin Infants Home, St. Paul's Creche, Yuen Long Children's Home, Eric Bruce Hammond M. Orphanage,
St. Christopher's Home and
Po Leung Kuk.
We provide a supportive network for former residents and staff members, patrons and supporters of Hong Kong
orphanages, adoptees, parents and families of adoptees to reconnect, learn about their past, and share their experiences.
We
welcome and invite you to contact us, add to our body of knowledge and enjoy the fellowship of those with similar backgrounds.
Northern England Adoptee dim sum luncheon at the
New Emperor Chinese Restaurant in Manchester UK at 2 p.m. June 26, 2010. If
you live in UK and are an adoptee from HK, please RSVP
tinaemail22 @yahoo.co.uk to attend. For more info, see TTAG and BAAF.
Several
reunions for adult adoptees from Hong Kong are planned for the end of September 2010. Plan to attend both
events if you can.
For more info on the reunion organized by adoptees living in New Zealand, send email to
info@fanlingbabies.com.
Several political situations led to extremely dire conditions in Hong Kong. During the Japanese occupation, the population
fell from 1.6 million to roughly 600,000. War time abuses, food shortages and unemployment led to much suffering,
abandoned babies and even death from starvation.
The population swelled again when thousands of destitute refugees
fled to Hong Kong after the Communists took control of mainland China in 1949. Many settled in Fanling, a small
village 4 km from the border in the New Territories. Some found themselves unable to care for their children.
According
to reports in 1949 and 1950, between ten and fifteen thousand babies per year were abandoned in Hong Kong with 80% doomed to die.
Initiallly, the British colonial government in Hong Kong was unprepared to provide social services to these needy souls.
Fortunately, a number of local citizens, Christian missionaries and charitable organizations in Hong Kong rose to the occasion
and provided these missing social services.
In particular, missionaries established a number of hospitals, homes for orphans,
homes for the blind, schools and so forth.
Po Leung Kuk, established in 1878, focused on caring for orphans during the
Japanese occupation. Fanling Babies Home also provided shelter for abandoned babies during the Japanese occupation
and the mainland refugee crisis. Established in 1956,
Evangel Children's Home provided a Christian home for the growing
number of orphans.
Hong Kong became a center of missionary activity. A large exodus of missionaries from China resettled in
Hong Kong. Using Hong Kong as a base, they resumed their charitable missionary work. We are indeed blessed and grateful
for the difference they made in the lives of their young wards.
Fanling Babies Home