Home Kong Kitchen
With most of our planned summer projects postponed, Mental Ideas has been on a roll and making serious dough! Thanks to the team effort of volunteer bakers Ying, Moira, Emma, Raquel, Chrizaline, Michelle, Mercy, Amy and Sadie, we’ve spent much of the summer turning our kitchens into mini-Hiroshimas and making weekly food drives to support Hong Kong NGO Breadline!
The charity relies on food waste from cafes and restaurants to deliver bread to the homeless and other vulnerable groups living below the breadline on the streets or in shelters. But with shops and restaurants operating restricted hours at low capacity, Breadline and other food waste charities have been struggling to meet demand at a time when it has never been higher. So after reading about their struggles in the HKFP, we decided to bake our own and donate it to the charity.
A couple of weeks ago we donated to a shelter for Kenyan women migrants and refugees (pictured) after learning bread is part of their essential diet! ❤️ Last week we donated to a refuge shelter for abused domestic helpers awaiting trial. ❤️ We were also able to donate shop bought loaves to Feeding Hong Kong! ❤️
Join our Baker’s Dirty Half Dozen!
If you live in Hong Kong and fancy a crack at baking bread yourself, we’d LOVE for you to join us! We’re all amateurs (though a few of us are fast becoming experts!) We bake/ drop off Thursdays and deliver Fridays. Click on the link below to learn more about the charity’s inspiring work and the different ways you and your community can contribute! Big love & gratitude to the inspirational Daisy Tam Diers, founder of Breadline, and Foodworks HK for enthusiastically supporting our fledgling Home Kong Kitchen initiative!
Art & Soul Food
We are now collaborating with local artists to create sustainable bread boxes out of recycled waste with doodled designs and messages of solidarity for our homeless friends. If you’re an artist and would like to send us your sketches and messages, please email sadie@mentalideas.org.
We are also exploring the possibility of setting up our own online bakery where you can order our breads, muffins and other goodies and we deliver to your homes. We can’t promise it will be the best you’ve ever tasted, but we CAN promise every cent we make is donated to the homeless. Watch this mental space…!
https://breadline.hkfoodworks.com/welcome
COMING SOON!
Thanks to Foodworks HK for supporting our initiative, Hong Kong Buzz for publishing this feature and look out for us in the SCMP‘s Post Magazine Oct 11!
疫情已經歷了3波8個月，。如果您沒有工作，沒有薪金，減少了工作時間，缺少食物或生活必需品，請不要讓您孩子們會空著肚子睡覺。不要害怕或尷尬地向我們發送私人消息。我們將竭盡所能幫助您，這可能只是將食品包裹放在您門前然後離開的情況。您不必與我們見面，沒有人會知道。就其他人而言，這從未發生過。請與您所認識並且在精神上和財務上都在掙扎的任何人分享。謝謝！
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