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New Life Healthy Living Specialty / Organic Shop is proud to win the “Corporate Social Responsibility Award” in “Hong Kong Proud Corporate Brand Awards 2009”

Winner of the same award for second consecutive year - New Life Healthy Living Specialty/Organic Shop (HLSS) was proud to receive the “Corporate Social Responsibility Award” in “Hong Kong Proud Corporate Brand Awards” in 2008 and again in December last year.

The Hong Kong Proud Brands Award is jointly organised by Ming Pao and the Chinese University of Hong Kong Marketing MSc programme. The 4 criteria considered for the award include: corporate brand strategy and implentation, brand management and corporate culture, corporate social resposibility, and business results and achievements.

The award is a great encouragement to the association. It is a testimony of the rising recognition of the shop amongst the public. It also attests to HLSS’ effort in attaining to high quality services and a high level of customer satisfaction - which we would certainly continue into the future.

New Life Healthy Living Specialty / Organic Shop is proud to win the Gold Service Innovation Prize in “2009 Best Practice Awards in Social Welfare”

New Life Healthy Living Specialty/Organic Shop (HLSS) was proud to be awarded the Gold Service Innovation Prize in “2009 Best Practice Awards in Social Welfare”, which was held on November, 2009. This biennial competition is organised by Hong Kong Council of Social Service with an aim to give recognition to good practice, promote public awareness of the contribution of the welfare sector and enhance cross-service professional exchange and sharing of experiences.

The assessment criteria included: Rationale and social responsiveness, Work approach and implementation process, Effectiveness, Consolidation of knowledge/practice wisdom, Innovation, and Institutional synergy.

The award is a huge recognition for the shop’s achievement. But above all, it is the devotion of the people with mental illness, who demonstrated the spirit of “I can do it!” while working at the shop, that made all the differences. Not only did they need to equip themselves with professional knowledge about organic and healthy food, they also had to do their utmost to meet the demand of customers, who came from all walks of life, for high-quality products and services. These people with mental illness have come a long way since they first reported to work with less than desirable skills. Today they are already serving customers with well-trained techniques and confidence. We are proud to say, the success of HLSS is the result of the effort and devotion of people with mental illness, whose potential are yet to be developed.

New Life Restaurant is proud to win the Champion and Second runners-up in the “Poultry” and “Meat” group respectively in Eatsmart Restaurant Cooking Competition

In this increasingly competitive market which is marked by turbulence and uncertainty, one of the keys to success is: higher quality, cheaper price!

And that is the motto of New Life Restaurants. The two restaurants, which are located at the Shek Kip Mei Indoor Games Hall and Tsing Yi Swimming Pool respectively, endeavour to provide healthy and delicious food at an affordable price. This effort and the excellence that the resturants have achieved have won over not only the customers, but also the panel judges of the Eatsmart Restaurant Cooking Competition! Held by the Department of Health in May last year, the competition has attracted more than 100 entries from 51 EatSmart Restaurants. But New Life Restaurants beat the competitors and won the Champion in the “Poultry” group with “Chicken Roll with Assorted Wild Rice”, and the Second runners-up in the “Meat” group with “Braised Beef Cubes with Pumpkin, Mango and Green Bell Pepper” respectively! The award reaffirmed New Life Restaurants as the best choice for good food at a relatively low price!

New Life restaurants, just like other social enterprises of the Association, are advocates for “healthy eating and green living”. The resturants are dedicated to providing customers with hygenic and tasty food that is cooked with fresh ingredients and without Monosodium Glutamate. To customers’ delight, we will add seasonal organic ingredients like organic soybean curd, organic herbs which is grown on New Life Farm, to the recipe occasionally. More importantly, the resturants help creat training and employment opportunities for people with mental illness, and also a real work setting for them to learn how to get along and communicate with the public. Thus, their confidence and abilities can be fostered, which then paved the way for their further integration into the society.

Apart from dine-in service, New Life Restaurants also provide outside catering services and venue and party food for tea gatherings, birthday parties and so on. For enquiry, please call 2777 4726.

Shek Kip Mei Restaurant
G/F, Shek Kip Mei Park Sports Centre, 290 Nam Cheong Street, Kowloon
Tel：2777 4726

Tsing Yi Restaurant
G/F, Tsing Yi Swimming Pool, Tsing Yi, N.T.
Tel：2435 1077


	Champion in the “Poultry” group - “Chicken Roll with Assorted Wild Rice”

我復悠然：一個精神病患者的新生

為讓更多公眾透過精神病康復者的真實故事，了解他們的心路歷程，新生精神康復會將精神病康復者郭飛瑩女士於二零零六年以英文版本發行，有關自己患病經歷的《Free to Fly》，翻譯成中文版本《我復悠然：一個精神病患者的新生》，盼望大眾消除傳統以來對康復者的誤解，正確認識及了解他們在治療過程當中所面對的困擾和困難，從而能更適切地與他們相處。此書現已於各新生農社、新生便利店以及九龍塘新生糕美有售，售價為港幣68元正。

New Life and UPS jointly promote healthy eating and create job opportunities through “Organic Banana Tree Planting Volunteer Programme”

UPS has always been a keen supporter of our initiatives in promoting the full integration of people with mental illness into the society. Last year, one of the Association’s subsidiary - New Life Farm, which serves both as a sheltered workshop and social enterprise, received a USD15,560 grant from The UPS Foundation, the charitable arm of UPS, as the sponsorship for the “Organic Banana Tree Planting Volunteer Programme”. The programme aims to maximise the usage of land & productivity of New Life Farm by planting banana trees, which in turn would help maintain environmental sustainability. By marketing the organic bananas through our Healthy Living Specialty Shops, it also helps promote healthy living and eating habits among the Hong Kong community. Furthermore, more than 100 training and job opportunities would be created for people with mental illness through this project, which would aid the process of their integration into the society and independent living.

The UPS volunteers planted the organic bananas on New Life Farm on Jun 20, 2009, an event which served as the prelude to the “Organic Banana Tree Planting Volunteer Programme”. Briefly after that, on July 20, 2009, Mr. Edurado Martinex, Director, Philanthropy & Corporate Relations of the UPS Foundation paid visit to New Life Farm. A cheque presentation ceremony was then organised on August 4, 2009, with Mr. Derek Woodward, President, Asia Pacific Region of UPS, gracing the event and presenting Prof. Fanny Cheung, Chairperson of the Association, with the cheque. As a token of our thankfulness to the UPS Foundation’s generous grant, we have also prepared a delicate 3D banana tree model handmade by people with mental illness for the UPS Foundation. Mr. Woodward received the souvenir on the Foundation’s behalf and was highly appreciative of it.

Teresa New Life Coffee Shop is proud to win Top Service Award 2009

Teresa New Life Coffee Shop has been receiving massive and positive media coverage since its commencement of operation. Its excellence was further affirmed by Next Magazine which presented the shop with the “Top Service Award 2009” in the category of social enterprise. Next Magazine’s annual Top Service Award, which in 2009 was already its 20th one, is organised to recognise companies in different sectors for their service excellence. The assessment criteria for the award in the social enterpise cateogry cover the following 6 aspects: corporate culture, realisation of social enterprise concept, promotion of the idea of social enterprise, innovativeness, sustainability and its mode of operation. Teresa New Life Coffee Shop was honoured to be one of the 3 winners in this cateogry. With the recognition and encouragement came with the award, the shop would further devote itself to meeting and exceeding customer expectation by providing excepitonal products and services, and creating even more training and employment opportunities for service users.