The sheer quantity of food waste in Hong Kong is staggering. Every day, we as a city throw away food weighing the equivalent of 300 double decker buses! It accounts for around 30% of all municipal solid waste.

At the same time, with one in four people in Hong Kong living below the poverty line, food insecurity is very real for many of our own neighbours. Crossroads loves partnering with food charities like Feeding Hong Kong and FoodLink to serve some of these most vulnerable, who have suffered even more through the economic upheavals of the pandemic. We often help match food donations with those who need them through such networks. In 2021-22, we also ran a food collection point at Crossroads Village for donations of food to Feeding HK, which was used by many in our local community to give rice, oil, canned food and more.

We’ve also benefited hugely from food donations ourselves in 2021-22. The gifts have been nothing short of astonishing! Our catering department (photo below)  is creative in using donated food like cheese, pizza bases, kale, fish, beef and even cookies and chocolate in feeding our hungry army of volunteers every day for lunch. It saves us thousands of dollars each year and we couldn’t be more grateful.