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[140th Anniversary of Le Shan Tang, Kowloon] "Meal" vouchers provide nutritious "good" meals with love

2020-10-27T22:17:47.298Z


In order to encourage a culture of care and mutual help in the community, Kowloon Lok Sintang launched the "Meal" meal coupon program in 2015 to provide hot and nutritious lunch boxes to the needy in the Kowloon City and To Kwa Wan districts. The economic pressure of internal residents. The service users of the plan are mainly low-income people, unemployed people, people with poor living conditions (such as subdivided households), and people with weak family support (such as elderly people living alone). The plan is to use the Leshantang social enterprise in To Kwawan-"Leshantang Jiabao Nutritional Food Center" as the production and distribution point. Applicants who pass the means test can get 10 nutritious lunch boxes per month. Lunch boxes are freshly made in the food center every day, and are based on low sugar, low salt, and less oil to provide healthy meals for those in need.


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Written by: Wang Yuechen

2020-10-28 06:00

Last update date: 2020-10-28 06:00

In order to encourage a culture of care and mutual help in the community, Kowloon Lok Sintang launched the "Meal" meal coupon program in 2015 to provide hot and nutritious lunch boxes to the needy in the Kowloon City and To Kwa Wan districts. The economic pressure of internal residents.

The service users of the plan are mainly low-income people, unemployed people, people with poor living conditions (such as subdivided households), and people with weak family support (such as elderly people living alone).

The plan is to use the Leshantang social enterprise in To Kwawan-"Leshantang Jiabao Nutritional Food Center" as the production and distribution point.

Applicants who pass the means test can get 10 nutritious lunch boxes per month.

Lunch boxes are freshly made in the food center every day, and are based on low sugar, low salt, and less oil to provide healthy meals for those in need.

Provide nutritious meals for self-reliant grassroots families 

Ms. Li learned from the preacher of the church in To Kwa Wan that Le Shan Tang had a "meal" meal coupon program, so she approached Le Shan Tang to apply for it.

Ms. Li has two lovely daughters, 6 and 2 years old.

Her husband is a decoration engineer and the breadwinner of the family.

Ms. Li's family of four has recently moved to a sub-divided house on the 8th floor of the Tang Dynasty on the 13th Street (commonly known) of To Kwawan due to a rent increase by the owner.

A family of four depends on the income from the husband's renovation project. They belong to a low-income family, and every money they earn has blood and sweat.

But their family is self-reliant, refuses to apply for CSSA, and wants to live on their own work income.

Although they have applied for working family allowance subsidies and full tuition subsidies for their children to help make ends meet, their lives are still struggling.

Taking their monthly income of about $16,000 as an example, family expenses include monthly rent of $6,000, husband's monthly transportation expenses of about $4,000, and daughter's expenses for paying school fees and buying food and cooking.

The monthly income and expenditure are just in balance, and there is no money left to save.

Ms. Li said that "meal" coupons can save her money and family expenses, and her daughters also like to eat "meal".

Because the "meal" is based on the principles of camping, low sugar, low salt, and less oil, it is suitable for the tastes of adults and children without adding MSG, and it has a homey taste.

As a housewife, with the help of meal coupons, she not only saves the time to buy food and cooks, but also saves more time to take care of her family and enjoy family fun at home.

She is very grateful to Le Shan Tang and the good leaders for their support and loving actions.

"Meal" beneficiaries (left) thank the donors of "Meal" coupons

"Diet" is based on low-sugar, low-salt, and low-oil standards. It is delicious and healthy.

The center is sponsored to support the continuous development of services

In addition to providing high-quality and inexpensive products for those in need, Leshantang Jiabao Nutritional Food Center also uses the social enterprise model to provide employment and training opportunities for the disadvantaged in the region.

Since 2014, the center has been providing party food delivery services for different organizations and enterprises; at the same time, working people in To Kwawan can also order lunch express to "Ying".

In addition, the food center will also launch seasonal food gift boxes in response to different festivals, such as: Dragon Boat Festival rice dumplings, milk emperor moon cakes, festive fruit baskets, bon choi and Chinese New Year cakes. Every food sold will attract the elderly and low-income families. Benefits make the festival even more blessed.

Due to the continuous expansion of central services, resource expansion is particularly important.

At the beginning of this year, the center received a donation of HK$1 million from the chairman of Jiabao Group, Mr. Lin Xiaoyi, to support its service development, and was named "Leshantang Jiabao Nutritional Meal Center".

With the support of Jiabao Group, the center will provide more high-quality and inexpensive nutritious meals to more beneficiaries.

In addition, under the influence of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the center has also cooperated with the Social Welfare Department to provide door-to-door meal delivery services for people living in isolation; it also provides hot meals for basic-level families living in the transitional social housing of the church, etc., which are highly regarded by beneficiaries Appreciated.

In the future, Leshantang Jiabao Nutritional Food Center will continue to expand, research and produce more healthy food, and use its own resources to expand the scope of services and promote more poverty alleviation work!

Guests from Leshantang and Jiabao Group held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the "Leshantang Jiabao Nutritional Diet Center" in March this year

If you want to donate to support Lok Shan Tang, Kowloon, please click the following link:

https://www.loksintong.org/donate

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Source: hk1

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