Tung Wah Education Service
Tung Wah Group's Education Service (formerly called “Free Education by Tung Wah Hospitals”, or 東華義學 ) could be traced back to 1880, when Chung Wah College (中華書院), where adjacent to Man Mo Temple (文武廟) on Hollywood Road, was operated under Tung Wah Hospital. Chung Wah College provided free education to the poor and the school's operation was supported by the donation received from the Man Mo Temple. Although the main curriculum were the Three Character Classic (三字經), the Four Books (四書) and the Five Classics (五經), the education also included vocational training, the graduates would be equipped with a technical skill.
In 1908, when Man Mo Temple handed to Tung Wah Group, the education service was officially under Tung Wah’s management. Tung Wah Hospital continued expanding their free education service and founded a total of 21 schools in Hong Kong in 1928. Tung Wah Group founded an evening school for male adults in 1920, called 半夜學堂. The school had also admitted female students starting in 1931. Free Education by Tung Wah Hospital was suspended in 1941 due to the Japanese occupation.
Free Education by Tung Wah Hospitals resumed its service in 1946, and continued expanding the education networks for primary schools and secondary schools. Tung Wah Group’s education service founded their first higher education institute, Tung Wah College, in 2010.
Tung Wah College (東華學院)