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Carol Wong carrying left over bread for Breadline

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。

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Breadliner Simon Haul

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。

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Story of Breadline Simon

The Story of Breadline

The story of breadline is about food rescue and what happens to food when it can no longer be sold at a bakery, a market, or even a city level. So where do the food go when the shops close?

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Technology for good. Haul collected by volunteers and Breadline

Technology for Good

How do you design technology for good? Breadline is not only a webapp that collects surplus food for the poor, it’s also a tool that encourages participation and enables individuals to work together independently.

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Poster showing Daisy Tam speaker at 'Misplaced' by Livin Farm

Our Dystopic Food System

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

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K11 Webinar Rethinking Culture Through Urban Agriculture

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 were to put urban agriculture on the agenda. Growing food in the city is not a return to the past, it is a vision of sustainability and resilience.

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hunger crisis in our urban environment

Hunger Crisis

COVID19 is deepening the hunger crisis. According to Oxfam’s latest report, 12,000 people per day will die from hunger caused by the pandemic pandemic – potentially more than the COVID death toll. Daisy Tam discusses hunger crisis with Karen Koh on RTHK Radio – 123 show.

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Discussing Urban Resilience at Food Made Good Sustainability Breakfast

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 a temporary solution, local production should be part of the city’s resilience planning – contingency for future risks.

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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 are overly dependent on imports and have little buffer in our supply chain.

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Daisy Tam featuring in Tatler magazine

The New Asia

So proud to see Breadline featured alongside other innovative projects selected to represent the New Asia in Tatler’s launch issue. In every field and discipline, there are those who break the mould and I am pleased to be considered part of that wave.

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Portrait of Daisy Tam seating on a stool

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 on food systems. I was reminded of a conversation I had with a Michelin star chef, I said “go for the good, not the best” to which he asked “but why?”.

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Breadline web app

Breadline is Hong Kong’s first crowdsourced food rescue web app that connects donors with volunteers and charities so surplus food can be delivered to those who need it. We want to give old bread new life!

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Microwave Panel

The Apocalyptic Feast

What would we eat after the apocalypse? What future foods would be available and in what forms? In this playful take on the future of food, I threw an apocalyptic feast and invited my audience to a tasting menu of reconstituted eggs, vacuum packed steaks, and canned fruit and freeze dried vegetables.

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