Food Angel Vegetable Processing Arrangement
The Defond Hong Kong team participated in a meaningful corporate social responsibility initiative. They spent a morning preparing meals for Food Angel, a food rescue group that transforms surplus food into meals for Hong Kong’s needy and elderly. Food Angel is the first food rescue and assistance program launched by the Bo Charity Foundation in 2011, with the mission “Waste Not, Hunger Not, With Love.” Currently, the organization rescues an average of 45 tons of usable surplus food weekly. It prepares over 20,000 nutritionally balanced meals daily and distributes approximately 11,000 food packages, providing free meals to those in need.
The plastic crates at Food Angel were filled with imperfect vegetables recovered from wholesale markets. The vegetables showed slightly shriveled skins with darkened patches, their leaves dotted with small honeycomb-like blemishes. These supermarket-rejected produce was soon given new purpose by the Defond team. The task involved preparing carrots and sorting vegetable leaves. The carrots required peeling, with any black-spotted portions to be discarded before cutting into uniformly sized pieces. Dice size was carefully controlled for elderly recipients to ensure easy swallowing. Meanwhile, they trimmed off any imperfect spots—lightly wilted, yellowed, or blemished areas—retaining just the perfectly good leaves.
In the end, after three hours of collective effort by the team, they processed over 500 kilograms of vegetables. The participation in this initiative embodied Food Angel’s ethos of “Waste Not, Hunger Not, With Love,” while demonstrating Defond’s team collaboration and the ‘Value of Care’ corporate culture.
