The Singapore Po Leung Kuk (Chinese: 保良局) was an institution in Singapore for women and girls who were victims of forced prostitution.
The Po Leung Kuk was established by the Chinese Protectorate in 1888, after a similar institution, Po Leung Kuk was founded in Hong Kong in 1878.
[1] It began as a single room with six beds and was meant for permanent juvenile residents.
Beginning in 1931, accommodation was provided for in the Mental Hospital for 'moral imbeciles and feeble-minded girls' unsuitable for accommodation in a Po Leung Kuk Home.
[2] During the British Military Administration, the Po Leung Kuk Welfare Home in Singapore was turned into a training school to reform girls who had fallen or been coerced into prostitution during the war.