In these times of spiralling inflation in Hong Kong, low-income workers and their children are struggling to eat nutritionally balanced meals.
While Hong Kong ranks eighth in the world as a wealthy economy in terms of its gross domestic product per capita (based on purchasing power parity), the distribution of wealth - and food - is very unequal: Hong Kong also has one of the highest income gaps for a developed economy, and recent Oxfam Hong Kong research indicates that one out of six poor households with children live in a state of 'high food insecurity' and experiences hunger.
In Hong Kong, the term 'food insecurity' is rarely heard, and the government does not pay serious attention to this basic human need and basic human right.
According to the United Nations, people are 'food-insecure' when they do not have regular 'access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life'.
The Hong Kong government's food assistance policy lags far behind international standards.
Food and nutrition programmes in Canada and the United States, for example, actively stress the provision of nutritional food for low-income families, ensuring a variety of healthy food, such as fresh fruit and vegetables.
Our government, on the other hand, only funds five non-governmental organisations to provide dry and canned food at 'food banks' in limited areas of Hong Kong - a very passive act.