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Social Performance 77
Social Harmony Cooking Contest
Electric Toilet Washlets for the Elderly
During the year, in association with The Hong Kong
Society for the Deaf, we arranged a cooking
competition in June to highlight the importance of
integration between the deaf and hearing people,
and communication within the family unit. This
was the first cooking contest of its kind in the city,
and Towngas volunteers attended preparatory sign
language courses before teaming up with their
hearing-impaired partners.
Originally the idea of Managing Director Alfred Chan, this donation programme has
been active since 2013. It enables elderly people to use toilet facilities with dignity
while reducing the workload of care workers. Since the programme’s inception, we
have installed more than 200 electric toilet seats. This year we raised more than
HK$330,000 through our annual fundraising initiative Mad Dog Café, which supported
us with charity hot dog sales.
Rice Dumplings and Mooncakes for the Community
Since 2000, the Company has been holding
the annual charitable campaign Towngas Rice
Dumplings for the Community. It encourages
the tradition of wrapping rice dumplings and
donating them to those in need. This year, we
kicked off the 16th campaign with the Wrapping
in the Dark workshop. The workshop encouraged
social harmony and gave an authentic experience
of what it was like to be visually impaired. In
2016, with the help of 220 legislative councillors,
district councillors, members of more than 25
community organisations and other volunteers,
we delivered 330,000 rice dumplings to the elderly
and society’s most vulnerable people.
This year, we also held our Towngas Mooncakes
for the Community campaign. We partnered
with the Hong Kong Community Network –
LINK Centre, which is sponsored by the Home
Affairs Department, to organise a Hand-in-Hand
Mooncakes-of-Love workshop. This special event
celebrated Mid-Autumn Festival with a special
focus on diversity and inclusion, especially for
ethnic minorities. Towngas invited 124 charity
groups and local organisations to help donate
100,000 mooncakes. In total, more than 1.8
million mooncakes were distributed to people in
need across Hong Kong since the campaign was
launched in 2001.