By enhancing Feeding Hong Kong's (FHK) capacity to redistribute surplus food, this project helps amplify its positive impact, ensuring that more food nourishes people instead of ending up in landfills.
Feeding Hong Kong (FHK) is committed to tackling the critical issues of food waste and food insecurity by rescuing and redistributing surplus food. The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the urgency of the organisation’s mission, prompting a significant expansion of its operations. In the past year, FHK successfully rescued 1,320 tonnes of food, preventing 2.5 million kilogrammes of carbon emissions and providing the equivalent of 3.6 million meals to over 150 frontline charities.
Despite these accomplishments, the challenges remain. Hong Kong's wealth gap has more than doubled in the past five years, deepening food insecurity in a city where many struggle to access basic nutrition. As the only B2B food rescue charity in Hong Kong, FHK is uniquely positioned to bridge this gap. Its established expertise, partnerships, and logistics infrastructure enable it to manage large-scale donations of ambient, chilled, and frozen foods, while also coordinating the direct redistribution of smaller daily donations to communities in need. However, to fully capitalise on these assets, FHK must invest in the infrastructure that supports food redistribution, particularly in storage, transportation, and manpower.
This is the goal of the "Food wanted not wasted" project, which focuses on several key initiatives: establishing a skilled core team to coordinate the food rescue programmes and improve the organisation’s operations; optimising FHK’s transportation services (notably through the acquisition of five additional trucks); and the investment in storage facilities.
By enhancing FHK's capacity to redistribute surplus food, this project helps amplify its positive impact, ensuring that more food nourishes people instead of ending up in landfills.
