| Administrative History | Programme spending in 1993/94, 1994/95.
Save the Children (SCF) has worked in Hong Kong since 1959, initially to support government efforts to improve social service provision for the rapidly increasing Chinese population. During the 1960s SCF established a number of day care centres for younger children in new housing resettlement areas. One SCF day care centre was adopted by the authorities as the model for nursery day care throughout Hong Kong. SCF also set up centres for disabled children and two hostels for street children and orphans. As specialist agencies developed in Hong Kong, SCF handed over these projects to the local authorities. By 1974 the only remaining SCF project in Hong Kong was a sponsorship scheme to enable children from poorer families to attend secondary school. With the introduction of government education subsidies this was phased out.
SCF then developed a foster care programme and single parent programme for the indigenous population in addition to the Vietnamese refugee programme. |