'Community kitchens' to serve unused food to needy

"Community kitchens" will be set up around the city to serve the needy using foods unused by catering outlets, the new chairman of Food for Good, Professor Joe Leung Cho-bun, said.

Outlining the initiative, Leung said the company had secured funding from the owner of a local beauty salon to establish a community kitchen in North District.

The project is to be undertaken in collaboration with the Hong Kong Federation of Women, of which Regina Leung Tong Ching-yee, wife of Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, is a patron. Regina Leung was previously in charge of Food for Good, having established it in 2012, but stepped down in January over a possible conflict of interest due to the organisation being a private company as opposed to a charity.

It is currently undergoing transition to a non-profit entity, and Regina Leung remains an honorary patron.

Joe Leung hopes they will establish a second kitchen in Tung Chung, where they may be able to use excess food generated by the airport.

He said the airport had been doing a lot in reducing and recycling food waste, but that there was still room for improvement.