South China Boat Mission / Oriental Boat Mission [1909- ]
During the 20th century a large section of the Hong Kong community, too poor to own land or property, lived in sampans on water as the ‘boat people’. Families of 7 or 8 (or more) lived in sampans 4 feet wide and 15 feet long together with chickens and ducks, dogs and cats; boats tied together in long rows with dozens and dozens of other sampans in impossible mazes on the water, in sheltered spots round Hong Kong – Shaukiwan, Causeway Bay, Aberdeen and