Campaign to send thank you cakes to Hong Kong medical staff fighting coronavirus crowdfunds HK$30,000 in 3 weeks. You can donate to send more
- ‘Cakes for Heroes. Baked by Heroes’ was set up last month to solicit donations to pay for cakes and biscuits to be sent to frontline hospital staff in Hong Kong
- The baking is done by the Nest Bakery, staffed by people with learning difficulties. The campaign is seeking donations to send more gift boxes to hospitals
Greg March listened to Hongkongers clapping to show their support for medical staff in the city battling the Covid-19 outbreak and wondered if more could not be done to show Hong Kong’s gratitude for their work.
Within four days of the clapping hour for health staff at 8pm on April 3, March had launched a crowdfunding campaign, “Cakes for Heroes. Baked by Heroes”; in return for donations, staff at The Nest Bakery, newly opened in Sai Ying Pun, bake cakes for hospital staff.
In less than four weeks the campaign has received HK$30,000 in donations, and this week the social enterprise was busy baking cakes and biscuits and packing them into 85 boxes for delivery to frontline medical staff fighting the coronavirus pandemic at Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital in Chai Wan.
