Food Angel (Chinese: 惜食堂) is a new established food rescue organization in Hong Kong. It provides food assistance program with 4 main missions: Reduce food waste at source, Alleviate hunger, Relieve Poverty and Educate the next generation. It was launched in 2011 by Bo Charity Foundation and supported by wide range of both local and international food donors, sponsors plus charity partners.
Contents
- Objectives
- Services
- Bread Angel
- Corporate Angel
- Green Angel
- Outreach Angel
- Community Angel
- Timeline News
- Funding and Food donors
- References
Food Angel has its independent offices, kitchens and community center based in Kowloon and Hong Kong Island. This program rescues approximately 4,000 kg of edible surplus food from food industry daily and produce, redistribute about 6,000 meal boxes to the underprivileged in the community.
Objectives
Food Angel aims at reducing food waste at source, alleviating hunger, relieving poverty and educate the next generation. The idea of Food Angel originated from the alleviating the pressure on landfills in Hong Kong. When the organization started to develop, it began extending to solve other food related social problems like poverty.
Currently, Food Angel has more than 150 partners who work hand in hand to contribute to the betterment of our society. Food Angel also contacted a number of celebrities to support their organization. They hope by large scale promotion, they could raise citizens’ attention to food wastage as well as the importance of food waste recycling which they are focusing lately. Eventually, they hope there will be less food waste and a harmonious society can be built where people would volunteer to give a hand to people in need. Their vision is not only reducing food waste, but also making everyone in Hong Kong have 3 meals a day.
Services
Food Angel rescues surplus food in order to relieve the landfills pressure in Hong Kong. Food Angel collects surplus food from suppliers, supermarket, wet market and donation partners during daytime and at night. Food Angel receives food donations, including fresh food, canned/non-perishable food, oils & seasonings, cooked foods and frozen/chilled foods, to prepare meal boxes then distribute to people in need such as elderly, low-income families with young children and homeless people. The meal box that Food Angel made is suitable for elderly.
Besides distributing meal boxes in the center, Food Angel will also visit the elderly and deliver meal boxes to those disabled. Food Angel provides elderly care workshop, for example, literacy classes, Chinese opera and Erhu performance.
Bread Angel
Collecting unsold bakery products from bakeries at closing time and then distribute to beneficiaries to consume next day.
Corporate Angel
Corporate Angel aims at supporting Food Angel’s campaign “Waste Not, Hunger Not” to corporate volunteers to perform corporate social responsibilities. It organizes internal fundraising events to raise fund for Food Angel’s program.
Green Angel
A program offers academic year long school-based educational activities, including Introductory Talk, a Puppet Show, an Animation, Green Lessons, Food Up-cycling Workshops, Field Trips, an Inter-schools Competition and a Rewarding Scheme. Green Angel aims at teaching young generation to cherish food and preserve the natural resources on earth.
Outreach Angel
Distributing free nutritious hot meal boxes, non-perishable food packs and loving care to singletons and deprived elderly living in the Eastern district. Outreach Angel provides home delivery service and regular home visits to the singleton, physically frail or disabled elderly five days a week.
Community Angel
Providing free dine-in food assistance service in Sham Shui Po District for the vulnerable and frail elderly who aged 65 or above.
Timeline & News
Food Angel was set up in 2011, and started several campaign in the meantime.
Different Newspaper has post news about Food Angel’s activities since 2012. Most of them are about giving lunch box to the people in need, for instance, they tried to turn food waste into lunch box, and it had been introduced in Headline 2015, April 1.
The three events of Canstruction Hong Kong had been introduced in different newspaper, such as Apple daily, Oriental daily, Skypost, etc. at 2015.
Funding and Food donors
All People can donate food or money to Food Angel. For example, they can directly donate fresh food, non- perishable food, oils, seasonings and frozen foods to food central kitchen or the logistic teams can go to donors’ stop to collect the food donations. People may also donate money directly through online payment or cheque.
Over 120 companies are the common food donors. Most of them are hotels, bakeries, restaurants or food companies.
。Délifrance
。Hong Kong Eaton Hotel
。Lee Kum Kee
。Kee Wah Bakery etc.
Besides that, there are more than 60 companies or organizations supporting Food angel’s operation by providing resources and donating money to them.
。 Ageas
。Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust
。 Swire Properties