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was another major charity which Gan strongly backed and financed. It was established in 1867 and is the oldest charitable institution in
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Gan also founded a school for the poor in the village of Sam-toh in Fujian, China, where his forefathers were born, and helped to finance and maintain the
Tranquerah Chinese Free School in Melaka. He also enabled young men of promise to realise their potential by paying for their university
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Gan Eng Seng School is unique among the schools in
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Although Gan had little education, he realised its value as he prospered and became wealthy. His dream to build a school for the poor which taught both
English and Chinese (Hokkien, as Mandarin was not commonly used in Southeast Asia then) was fulfilled in 1885, when he built the
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The
Peranakan Museum presents a Southeast Asian-wide view of Peranakan culture and houses a comprehensive collection of Peranakan artefacts. The museum is the latest addition to the
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somewhere on the hill by the side where Leng Kee Road runs today. Due to redevelopment of the area, his body was disinterred and reburied in a family grave at
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