Thye Hua Kwan Moral Society

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Thye Hua Kwan Moral Society (Chinese: 德教太和观) is a volunteer welfare organisation in Singapore. It's welfare arm is known as the Society of Moral Charities.

Set up in 1978. the society aims to promote good morals and virtues such as compassion, filial piety, and respect for one another. With about 50 agencies and centres that it operates, the society provides a wide range of charity and welfare services, including childcare centres, senior activity centres, and medical centres.

From 2002, the Society took over the management of the 200-bedded Ang Mo Kio Hospital to provide rehabilitation and geriatric care to non-acute patients as a charity. During the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARs) in 2003, the Society provided relief and support by distributing food to people who were placed on home quarantine; it later received the National Award for Combating SARs for this effort.

[edit] Gambling hotlines

In January 2005, the Society set up a gambling hotline to give help to compulsive gamblers. The Society said that 10% of the family problems it handles were caused by gambling. Currently the hotlines are manned by people from the Society's regular pool of counsellors and social workers, but there are plans to create a selected pool of certified gambling counsellors, trained by specialists from Hong Kong. ^[1]