Tai Po Tsai Sun Tsuen / Pik Shui Sun Tsuen [1961- ]
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Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2012-04-18 22:51
Date Place completed:
1961-01-01
A 1979 map shows it as Tai Po Tsai Sun Tsuen, but on current maps it is called Pik Shui Sun Tsuen. I'm not sure when / why the name changed.
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The beginnings of Tai Po Tsai Sun Tsuen
Moddsey found the details on page 6 of the Annual Report for 1961 of the Church World Service:
New Cottages
One of the heartwarming experience during the past year has been the opening of 27 new cottages at Tai Po Tsai. The cottages are providing living accommodations for 162 people, 47 whom were in the group which I found upon their arrival in the Colony. Other are refugees who have been living in shacks or in the Walled City and are for the first time able to have permanent quarters in the Colony.
Twenty of the cottages were built with funds from the Refugee Migration Unit. The remaining cottages were built with gifts received from individuals including the Thanksgiving Day offering received at the 1960 American Community Thanksgiving Service.
At the Dedication Service, the refugees did their best to show their appreciation. Not only did they provide the traditional dragon and gong, but they even applauded the Dedicatory Prayer. Mrs Douglas Horton, former president of Wellesley College, and a visitor at the occasion, said she wouldn't have missed it for anything.
Since that time, four additional cottages have been completed and there are plans to build ten more. The people are being formed into a Better Living Cooperative, and will administer their own affairs. I hope that eventually a mission group can establish a work among these people even to the extent of building a small church, and community center building.