Once Lawrence and Horace Kadoorie had founded the Kadoorie Agricultural Aid Association (KAAA), they started a number of agricultural aid programmes to help refugee farmers. The brothers believed that simple hand-outs were not enough; aid would only be effective if the recipients had the determination and the ability to stand on their own two feet.

KAAA distributed thousands of pigs, cattle and poultry to farmers. KAAA also donated bags of cement for farmers to build pathways, wells, irrigation systems and dams. They gave farmers seeds, fertilisers, insecticides, sprayers and water pumps so that they could grow crops. Over the years, a total of 50,000 pigs were distributed, and more than 318 km of roads and pathways were built with KAAA donated cement.

These days in Hong Kong, many farms and villages have been abandoned or downsized, but if you hike around the New Territories you may still stumble across old agricultural and livestock facilities, roads, bridges, dams, houses or embankments marked with the KAAA logo.

Records up to 1959 show that certain structures were built in certain villages. It is likely that not all of those still have the KAAA mark on them. So there are many 'possible' KAAA structures out there too. A record up to 1959 is available below (after you submit disclaimer) so that interested members of the public can go to search for these structures and tell us about them, so that they can be mapped. Building continued throughout the 1960s and 70’s but those records were lost, so there are certainly other structures in other villages.

KAAA Heritage Map