Community Service

Food Share We Care @ Western District 愛‧共饗在城西食物分享計劃

Program Details
Date
14 - 19 Jan 2017
Location
Western Wholesale Food Market
Collaborator
Ever Green Association
No. of Volunteers
11
No. of Service Recipients
N/A
UN Sustainable Development Goals
HKUST CONNECT SDG GOALS
Volunteers estimating the number of boxes of unsold vegetables to be transported to the groups in need

An estimated 1 tonne of imperfect vegetables from Western Wholesale Food Market are disposed at the landfills daily. To help reduce food waste at source, the local green group Ever Green Association has expanded their “Food Share We Care” (「愛‧共饗」) campaign which started in 2013 to the Western Wholesale Food Market in 2016. The campaign aims at collecting unsold fresh vegetables from the food market and re-distributing them to groups in need. Volunteers gave a helping hand in saving surplus food from the landfill!

Volunteers interviewing the wholesaler to learn about their difficulties.
Volunteers interviewing the wholesaler to learn about about their difficulties