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Spirit of Hong Kong Awards: charity on nutrition mission with meals programme for people in need
- Feeding Hong Kong collects 65,000 surplus mooncakes this year alone and redistributes them to almost 100 charities
- Organisation has supplied foodstuffs for more than 21 million meals since it was founded in 2011 by Gabrielle Kirstein
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Hong Kong’s Mid-Autumn Festival generates an excess of mooncakes that would normally go to waste, but a charity has collected 65,000 of the delicacies this year alone to help fight hunger in the city.
Feeding Hong Kong distributed the mooncakes they collected around the festival to 95 charity partners as part of its nutrition mission.
The charity has saved more than 6,000 tonnes (6613 tons) of surplus food and provided the ingredients for more than 21 million meals since it was founded in 2011 by Gabrielle Kirstein.
Kirstein said the philanthropic organisation was designed to tackle the twin problems of food waste and hunger by redistributing quality edibles to provide support for those in need and create a win-win situation for everyone involved.
“We collect surplus stock from food companies, sort it, store it, and redistribute it to multiple charities across the city, efficiently serving a diverse group of people,” she explained.
Kirstein recognised tonnes of good food ended up in the bin every day, but, at the same time, many in the city struggled to afford three meals a day, which spurred her into action.
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