Meet the Cathay Pacific pilots raising money to buy rice for charity Feeding Hong Kong
- Australians Glen Clarke and Matthew Brockman kicked off a crowdfunding campaign to raise HK$10,000 for charity that rescues edible food and redistributes it
- A staple in Hong Kong, rice is almost never donated to charity because it does not expire and shops rarely discard it
Two Cathay Pacific pilots are on the run – a rice run.
After raising the same amount for two Australian foundations in 2017 and 2018, Clarke and Brockman decided it was time to give back to Hong Kong. Both men moved to the city for work four years ago.
“I wanted to support the community that gives my wife and me the life we live here. We wouldn’t have found the same opportunities back home,” says Clarke, 33.
Brockman, 30, agrees. “I started to think more about charitable work when I came to Hong Kong and realised how well we’ve got it. I feel like I’ve got a moral obligation to help some of the people who haven’t had the opportunities we’ve had.”
In 2017, Hong Kong sent more than 3,600 tonnes of food waste to landfills every day – but not all of it was inedible.
