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What is Breadline?

Breadline is Hong Kong’s first public digital platform for food rescue. Hong Kong — a rich city, with a poor...

29/02/2024

Breadliner, Carol Wong「以仁心看人，也看城市糧食安全」

Carol Wong，Breadline 早期義工之一，與Breadline 走過疫情爆發至今，見證由八至十人核心義工，互相補位：打電話到門市確認當晚麵包數量、聯絡義工、執包以至幫忙將麵包即晚送往受助團體；直到今日義工數量增加，運作模式穩定，既看著Breadline兩年多來的變化，疫情亦為Carol 個人帶來轉捩點。...

20/09/2022

Heat Waves and Our Food System

Heat Waves are effects of climate change. Food System activities generate large amounts of GhG emissions and have a huge...

26/08/2022

Breadliner – 救包英雄 – Simon

「麵包線」Breadline 由2019年成立至今兩年多，作為香港首個回收剩食麵包的網上平台，拯救的麵包數量多達十萬個，有賴一班來自不同背景、自發投身的有心人，願意為有需要人士獻出時間和心力，究竟是甚麼驅使他們投身Breadline？每位救包英雄背後所經歷的故事會是怎樣？麵包線義工 Breadliner訪問系列，首位受訪義工是Simon。...

19/06/2022

Panic buying and empty shelves

The anxiety of a citywide lockdown due to COVID has driven the population into another round of panic buying, leaving...

02/03/2022

COVID19 Price Hikes: call for food security in Hong Kong

Interview discussing Covid19 price hikes. I share my views on the vulnerability of our urban food system, the opportunity to...

10/02/2022

The Story of Breadline

The story of breadline is about food rescue and what happens to food when it can no longer be sold...

10/07/2021

Technology for Good

How do you design technology for good? Breadline is not only a webapp that collects surplus food for the poor,...

25/03/2021

Food Waste in Asian Cities Singapore & Hong Kong

Food waste is a global issue, but for Asian cities like Singapore and Hong Kong, the majority of the waste...

16/03/2021

Our Dystopic Food System

Our dystopic food system produces both both hunger and excess, a logic so contradictory that seems only possible in dystopic...

17/02/2021

Rethinking living with urban agriculture

In every crisis there is an opportunity, and now is the time to rethink what living could mean if we...

11/08/2020

Hunger Crisis

COVID19 is deepening the hunger crisis. According to Oxfam’s latest report, 12,000 people per day will die from hunger caused...

17/07/2020

Lessons from Covid19 lockdown, Build Back Better

As the world slowly emerges from the COVID pandemic lockdown, many are wondering what lessons can be learnt from this...

23/06/2020

Live Like It’s Doomsday 我們日用的飲食, 怎樣交給我們？

Pushing my trolley around the supermarkets’ empty shelves a few months ago – I couldn’t help but replay the scene...

05/05/2020

Urban Resilience, local and seasonal

Sourcing local and seasonal has become the response to the disruptions seen in our food supply chain. More than just...

21/04/2020

Food shortage in time of COVID

The food shortage we experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic revealed the vulnerabilities of our food system. In Hong Kong, we...

02/04/2020

The New Asia

So proud to see Breadline featured alongside other innovative projects selected to represent the New Asia in Tatler’s launch issue....

09/03/2020

The good not the best

Having been asked to reflect on my journey so far, I tried to distil the guiding principle of my research...

04/03/2020

Breadline web app

Breadline is Hong Kong’s first crowdsourced food rescue web app that connects donors with volunteers and charities so surplus food...

29/02/2020

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