The Yip Family of Amah Rock

Paperback with illustrated covers, the edges of the front and back covers near the spine are slightly sunned. Endpapers illustrated with map of Hong Kong & The New Territories. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs.

Mildred Dibden was born in 1905 into a large Edwardian family and came to a personal faith in God in her early twenties. Despite her artistic talent and desire to be an art teacher, Miss Dibden opted instead for a life dedicated to serving God and helping the poor and destitute. Although her first time in Hong Kong was cut short by malaria, Mildred Dibden was struck by the plight of hundreds of babies abandoned through poverty and superstition. She knew then that her real mission in life was to return to Hong Kong to care for those abandoned babies. Miss Dibden returned to Hong Kong in 1936 to take in and provide a home for abandoned babies where she established Fanling Babies' Home. For four years during WWII when Japan invaded Hong Kong, Mildred Dibden and her helpers suffered violence, starvation, dysentery and recurrent malaria. But they refused to abandon the babies. Eventually she left the Fanling Home and in 1952 founded a second home, Shatin Babies' Home, run on the same principles with the emphasis on family. To the children, she was "Mama." In the 1960's, Miss Dibden brought her work in Hong Kong to an end. After some 50 children were adopted into Christian families abroad, Mildred Dibden returned to England with the remaining charges.

Added value:

First Edition

Author(s):

Doggett, Jill

Condition:

Used: good

Edition:

1969

Format:

Paperback

Number of pages:

243