Feeding Hong Kong

The Community Chest of Hong Kong supports over 165 welfare organisations and we are thrilled to be one of them! With a mission to address the imminent needs of society and pro-actively assist the underprivileged, a portion of funds raised through The Community Chest have been donated to Feeding Hong Kong for the last 10 years. It was an honour to host a group of representatives from The Community Chest at our warehouse earlier this month to introduce our food rescue operations and organisational work, including our past achievements, future development plans, and prospects for our services. A huge thank you to The Community Chest for their commitment to supporting communities in Hong Kong through innovative fundraising, careful due diligence and passion to make a change.

We’re pretty chuffed to be receiving donations from one of Hong Kong’s finest artisanal bakeries, Bakehouse by Grégoire Michaud! The infamous Gregoire Michaud and his team have been true to their sense of community by donating Bakehouse’s coveted sourdough breads, fine pastries and more on a weekly basis since 2017. This has amounted to almost 50 tonnes of baked brilliance, shared with vulnerable people in Hong Kong! Bakehouse is also part of our Bread Run programme, which means you can sign up to help collect these delicious delights at the end of the day from their shops in Soho and Wan Chai and drop them directly to the Feeding Hong Kong warehouse in Yau Tong, ready for redistribution. Thanks Bakehouse for your passion, aspiration to redefine the impact of the bakery landscape and big hearts. We most definitely knead you!

We are very excited to announce the launch of the Goodman 'Veggie Van'; our brand new 5-tonne van, powered by Goodman, the specialist global industrial property group. Aligned with the Goodman purpose of ‘making space for greatness’, the Goodman ‘Veggie Van’ has a loading capacity of 2600kg and the compact design means it can navigate, pick up and offload in our more densely populated areas, ultimately fuelling our ability to collect more surplus food and reduce CO2 emissions by saving food from going to landfill. In turn, we can support more meals for frontline charities, on our mission to bridge the gap between surplus and need. Massive thanks to Goodman for driving this opportunity to bring more quality food to more well-deserving people! Watch out for our van about town. Goodman

Today is #WorldFoodDay, yet sadly over 2.8 billion people in the world cannot afford a diet containing the right nutrients and diversity needed to thrive and survive.   Food is our human right. It is the third most basic right after air and water. It is essential to our life, and the life of the planet, however right here in Hong Kong, almost 1.4 million people are living below the poverty line, struggling to afford food every day.   This World Food Day we are being encouraged to consider our need for greater food diversity, nutrition, affordability, accessibility and safety; all things that are at the heart of the Feeding Hong Kong mission.   With that in mind, we have put Vicky Lau, one of our favourite Michelin award-winning chefs, Feeding Hong Kong Board Director and founder of the renowned Tate Dining Room and Mora, to the test, and challenged Chef Vicky to rustle up an irresistibly mouth-watering and wholesome dish working with a bare minimum of diverse, yet balanced, staple ingredients, supplemented with a few smart purchases, and using very simple cooking equipment. We were not disappointed!   Every year we distribute over 18,000 Food Parcels for vulnerable communities in Hong Kong, including 2,500 especially to mark World Food Day.. The ingredients Chef Vicky works with in this video are a typical balance of food items that we supply in each parcel, enough for 10 meals.    We hope you enjoy the video for a recipe that’s great for seniors and children, packed full of veggies and other key staples, delivering an incredible, tasty dish, bursting with diverse ingredients, nutrients and wise ideas!    And this World Food Day, let’s remember, the right to food is about far more than calories for survival – it’s about healthy diets, variety and the ability to flourish. #WorldFoodDay #VickyLau #TateDiningRoom #Mora

Did you know that you can donate your Asia Miles to Feeding Hong Kong who will turn them into meals for vulnerable communities? The #DonateMiles campaign of Cathay Pacific allows you to give extraordinary meanings to your miles by gifting a life line to charities in Hong Kong who will benefit from balanced, wholesome meals, supported by Feeding Hong Kong. Visit the Charity section at @CathayShop at cathay.com/shop and use the ‘brands’ section to scroll to Feeding Hong Kong. • 1,960 Asia Miles you can support 10 meals to be shared by front line charities in Hong Kong • 3,290 Asia Miles will provide a child with breakfast through a Breakfast Club for one month • 7,850 Asia Miles will provide 10 wholesome family meals for a low-income family of four Thanks for your flying spirit and generosity. #AsiaMiles #Donate

Alarmingly, 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions come from food waste. This is the shocking statistic that underpinned this year’s Global Foodbanking Network annual conference, attended by our CEO, Gabrielle Kirstein OBE, reminding us why uniting as a global community is paramount in the fight against food loss and waste. We are Hong Kong’s only member of the The Global FoodBanking Network Network, and in 2023, we worked together with all our partners to rescue over 1,250 tonnes of quality food surplus, helping to save approximately 2.4 million kgs of CO2, and supporting more than 3.7 million meals. We are proud to be part of a global solution that will nourish both people and the planet. #GFNSummit2024

In an extraordinary feat of logistics, our team worked with 30+ incredible volunteers over the course of a tight 2-hour timeframe to collect more than 8 tonnes of delicious, juicy, sweet and nutritious surplus fruit after the ASIA FRUIT LOGISTICA exhibition last week. The fresh produce was then sorted and checked at our warehouse and immediately redistributed to 10 charity partners who were able to share the beautiful flavours of nature’s bounty from these generous exhibitors. However, this was the second year in a row our ASIA FRUIT LOGISTICA donation pick up was affected by a typhoon, a harsh reminder of the real life impact of climate change. Notwithstanding the unpredictable changes in weather, a huge thank you to our determined volunteers who stepped up, regardless of driving rain, heavy wind and the typhoon aftermath, to help make this fruitful rescue possible!

The fondly named ‘Lion Bank’ has been a roaring success for Feeding Hong Kong yet again! HSBC has been supporting our foodbank since 2013 and during that time has hosted two Food Drives per year, achieving an impressive 20 Food Drives in total, raising over 20 tonnes of much-needed staple goods for our charity beneficiaries, such as rice, noodles, cooking oil and tinned foods. Thanks to the ferocious spirit of the team at HSBC, their latest Summer Food Drive has been invaluable in helping to ensure that we can support meals for vulnerable communities which are wholesome and balanced. It seems those famous bronze lions are not just defending the safety and good fortune of HSBC but the right of everyone in the community to a good meal. Thanks Team HSBC.

Join us at trade show, Restaurant, Bar & Café Hong Kong, 3-5 September, HKCEC! It is a great chance for us to the hospitality industry in HK how their surplus quality food and even pre-used kitchen and dining ware items could be Feeding Hong Kong! We already partner with over 500 companies in HK to help fight food waste. Now with growing resources and capacity at our warehouse we are well placed to help rescue even more food to help bridge the gap between hunger and waste by redistributing surplus quality food to vulnerable communities in HK. Come and visit us at Booth 5G-E31 and find out how we can work together to help support the one million people in HK who struggle to afford wholesome meals. Register at https://bit.ly/3OLa6EK. Free to attend.

2023 was the Earth’s hottest year since global records began, 1.2°C higher than the expected average, which is why ReThinking how businesses can operate more sustainably is so vital. We are honoured to be an NGO partner at this year’s Fifth Edition ReThink HK, bringing industry leaders together to drive environmental and social change, 12-13 September, at HKCEC. Grab an Early Bird ticket now from rethink-event.com, come and say hi to us at booth NGO8 and join us in creating solutions, not problems, as we tackle climate change together.