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History
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The embryonic
beginnings (1952 - 1968)
In 1952, our founder, Dr Beryl Wilberforce-Smith
started a rehabilitation centre in the Johore Bahru
General Hospital for cured TB patients to teach
them some trade and handicrafts. That centre
gradually became a self-sustaining charity known as
the Johor Anti-TB Rehabilitation Organisation.
Three sheltered workshops for basketry,
book-binding and tailoring were set up.
As TB slowly faded away from the scene, there were
other disabilities and other physically-challenged
persons whose needs required attention.
With this new focus, JARO tookin a wide range of
physically-challenged persons (OKU). It was renamed
the Johore Area Rehabilitation Organisation so that
the acronym JARO was retained.
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Dr Beryl Wilberforce-Smith &
Husband.
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JARO 1954-1960
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JARO 1961-1968
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JARO's permanent home
(1968 till today)
From 1954 to 1960 JARO occupied a small room in the
Johor Bahru General Hospital. It shifted to larger premises
within the hospital in 1961.
In 1968 JARO moved from the small building in the General
Hospital grounds to a JKR-custom-built two-storey building
owned by JARO on land donated by the Johor State government.
It was officially opened by YAB Tun Hj. Abdul Razak bin Dato
Hussain, Deputy Prime Minister, Malaysia, on 1 Nov 1968. It
is located along Jalan Sungai Chat, Johor Bahru, in the
heart of the city and opposite the Clock Tower at Padang Sri
Gelam. JARO is now in the process of expansion to build an
extension on an adjoining piece of land in front of the
present one, also donated by the State
government.
JARO registered as a
society (1970)
On 14 July 1970 JARO was registered as a legal
organization under Section 7 of the Societies Act 1966
bearing the registration number 369 (Johor).
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