In the early years of the British rule and early days of the post-World War II period, rehabilitation services in Hong Kong were primarily provided by missionaries and voluntary organisations. To cite a few examples, the first home for the visually impaired (1863), the first temporary lunatic asylum (1875), and the Ebenezer School & Home for the Visually Impaired (1897), founded by Hildesheimer Blindenmission.

Tung Wah Group of Hospitals (TWGH) was originally established in 1870 as Tung Wah Hospital. TWGH promotes quality medical, educational, social, and public services, upholding its mission ‘to heal the sick and to relieve the distressed; to care for the elderly and to rehabilitate the disabled; to promote education and to nurture the young; and to raise the infant and to guide the youth’. Currently, TWGH integrates arts with various rehabilitation services, including ‘Creation without Barriers’, ‘idArt’, and ‘Art of Change – Regional Service Programme’, to improve accessibility to the arts, provide opportunities for people from all walks of life to participate, and to bring the arts into the community.