Gourmet food for refugees and asylum seekers
Charity, hotels and volunteers organise meals and counselling services for forgotten ones
Life for refugees and asylum seekers has been made more bearable and dignified by a charity that serves them food from a luxury hotel.
People of various ethnicities visit Christian Action's centre in Chungking Mansions for meals, counselling and education services, or just to sit and watch football.
The Tsim Sha Tsui centre serves three meals a day, six days a week to people who have fled their countries and are hoping to be accepted by a third country one day. They cannot work while in Hong Kong.
"We started with addressing their basic needs - food in your belly and a place to sleep for the night," said Julee Allen, manager of the organisation's humanitarian services department.
Food donors are mainly hotels, restaurants and other food outlets. They donate through other charities such as Foodlink Foundation and Feeding Hong Kong, which ensure the food quality when transporting it.
One of their donors, Kowloon Shangri-la hotel, has staff volunteers bringing in fruit and pastries and helping with meal distribution on a weekly basis on top of donations to Foodlink.
