Biography

Wat Wai Chun was born in Hong Kong in 1923. Her family had been Cheung Chau residents over several generations. Wat Wai Chun graduated from a primary school in Cheung Chau and went to a secondary school in Mongkok, but the fall of Hong Kong made her studies suspended. During the Japanese rule, she had been an inoculation registration clerk in Cheung Chau as well as a teacher in Mui Wo. In about 1944, she was admitted by a four year nursing programme offered by Tung Wah Group of Hospitals. She witnessed how Tung Wah Group of Hospitals treated patients and provided shelter for the homeless during the Japanese rule. In 1948, she sat the Hong Kong Certificate Level Examination. Upon completion of the nursing programme, she got married. Since then she had stopped working as a nurse. After her third child was born, she resumed the work as a nurse. She had five sons and a daughter. Subsequently she moved overseas.