BRIEF HISTORY OF REMAR HONG KONG
We arrive at
Hong Kong on February 14, 1998. Two missionaries, traveling
together with Miguel Diez, president of Remar International,
and his wife M. Carmen, came to establish the work of Remar.
A first home is opened in Lantau Island with capacity for
15 residents, where the specific work of rehabilitation begins
with young people. A few months later, within the same Lantau
Island, we move to a bigger home, |
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previously used for the same purpose of rehabilitation of drug
addicts. However, this house is distant from the urban centers,
making difficult the daily transfers and the direct bonding with
the people who live in the streets of Hong Kong. As a consequence,
a new specific home for first phase is opened in Pat Heung, New
Territories, with capacity for 20 rehabilitants, located near
the mountains, at a much better environment then the prior. We
start visiting and rescuing many drug addicts of all ages that
live and meet in areas like Yau Ma Tei and Sham Shui Po, at Kowloon.
With the arrival of the first married couple and their children,
to take charge of the work, a married couple’s home is opened
at Yueng Long. At this stage, we begin visiting the methadone
clinics of Yuen Long and Tuen Mun. Also at Yuen Long, a warehouse
with workshops is opened, where the donations of furniture, electrical
appliances, household - apart of clothes, beddings, toys, etc
- are repaired and selected, to cover the needs of the community
in Hong Kong and also to ship in containers to the different
homes for needy people that Remar has opened in the Philippines.
Remar Association keeps on serving Hong Kong by working through
the love of God and one another, helping the addicts, the homeless,
the abandoned and the needy in general. Our door is open 24 hours
a day, offering an immediate admission and a free long-term rehabilitation
program that helps them to experience a new and better way of life.
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