Celebrating its fifth Anniversary, local mental health charity Mind HK is presenting the city’s first-ever Mental Health Restaurant Week from 15 to 30 October 2022. Themed under “Food for Thought & Time to Talk”, the campaign is collaborating with over 50 of Hong Kong’s favourite restaurants and cafés to promote social connection and mental health awareness through food. The proceeds raised from the campaign will be donated to support Mind HK in improving accessibility to low-cost, community-based mental health services for those in need.
Participating restaurants
Mind HK is joining hands with a wide array of dining outlets, ranging from eateries serving Hong Kong’s beloved Chinese, Western, Korean and Japanese cuisines, to bars and cafés across the city. The campaign encourages everyone to participate to support their own and others’ mental health through spending more quality time with people around them at the dining table. It also serves as a way to help the Food & Beverage sector get through the challenges in the wake of the pandemic. Highlighted eateries include Duddell’s, Louise, Ming Court (Wan Chai & Cordis), Fumi, Salisterra, Bedu, Matchali, Monmono, Hjem, Cookie DPT, and more. Check out the full list of participating establishments.
iACT: Improving Access to Community Therapies
With your generous support and that from all the participating restaurants, funds raised from the campaign will be donated to supporting the development of Mind HK’s Improving Access to Community Therapies (iACT) initiative, which involves training new therapists (Mind HK’s well-being practitioners) to provide free or low-cost mental health support to individuals in need. Similar interventions overseas found that 50-70% achieve recovery status after treatment. This can help create a sustainable, long-term solution to addressing mental health problems in Hong Kong.
Make charitable donations in honour of Mind HK’s fifth anniversary.
About Mind HK
Since its establishment in 2017, the local mental health charity, Mind HK, has been making every effort to ensure that no one in Hong Kong has to face mental health problems alone. It’s trained over 17,000 in mental health literacy, had over 1.5 million users visit its website for mental health resources and support, and trained 50 wellbeing practitioners to provide free mental health support to young people.