Hong Kong foundation owner on a mission to feed city’s poor, and cut down on food wastage
Elli Fu Nga-nei of J Life Foundation set up centres to hand out food, provide space for children to do homework and learn and help them help themselves
Throngs of women were crowding a social service centre in Sham Shui Po, as they waited for free food on a stormy day.
The women, some of the 750 members of J Life Foundation, reached out for the bread, butter and broccoli handed out by the group’s chief executive Elli Fu Nga-nei and other helpers.
Fu, who started the organisation to provide food for poor Hongkongers, does this every day.
“I don’t want there to be a day when I don’t do frontline work and only manage, when I can’t be with the people I help,” she said.
The Christian devotee said the “J” in the name of her foundation stood for Jesus.
Fu started J Life Foundation in 2012 and opened J Cafe, a social service centre for street kids.