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Associate Professor Loh Chin Ee's grandmother (seated, third from left) encouraged parents to send their children to school in post-war Singapore by going door to door visiting families.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF LOH CHIN EE
Loh Chin Ee
SINGAPORE – In 1948, at the age of 23, my grandmother, Madam Zhang Juan, raised $500 to buy Poi Chai school in Sembawang.
Situated in the kampung at Chong Pang, the Chinese-medium school served the children in the area.
