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HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 8 October 2021 – Year 2021 marks the 10th Tithe Ethical Consumption Movement (TECM), organized by Fullness Social Enterprise Society (FSES). FSES is formed by a group of
knowledge volunteers to support social innovation and social entrepreneurship
development in Hong Kong for societal betterment. As TECM’s Ambassador, Ms
Kelly Chen uses her voice to generate awareness and encourage the public to
support local social enterprises through ethical consumption.
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With this year’s theme – “Shop Social”, a series of integrated
online and offline promotions has been organized to engage the public for
ethical consumption. Better yet, the enhanced TECM MALL, Shopping Rewards Scheme,
and a Christmas bazaar with local social enterprises will be launched so that
everyone can practice their ethical consumption and in turn to change the world
through consumption.
TECM MALL – the enhanced platform with
various social enterprises’ products and services
Through the promotion of ethical consumption, TECM hopes
that people from all walks of life can deepen their understanding of social
enterprises and encourages the public to shift one-tenth of their daily
consumption and shop at local social enterprises. Meanwhile, TECM also
emphasizes two core values where ethical consumption should not be charity nor
additional consumption. General public can fulfil their social responsibilities
by simply shopping at a social enterprise.
To echo the theme “Shop Social”, the e-shopping
platform TECM MALL has been extensively enhanced in order to stay ahead of the market
trend and to facilitate
the public to practice their ethical consumption. Features such as online
payment has been added, with many more social enterprises joining the platform.
With the enhanced features and varieties of products and services offered on
the TECM MALL, the general public can now shop with ease and convenience.
In celebrating to the 10th
anniversary of TECM, those who successfully registered on the tecmmall.hk website as email subscribers from
September 29th to October 10th will receive a $110 discount! The official
launch day of TECM MALL is October 11th, where you can use the discount code and
shop freely. Sign up now to receive $110 discount and consume ethically at your
fingertips to support local social enterprises.
Buy to Donate
The second phase of
Consumption Vouchers from the government has been issued. Apart from shopping,
have you ever thought of extending your helping hands and considered donating
the vouchers to the needy? TECM MALL currently accepts Tap & Go payments to facilitate the use
of consumption vouchers. Rather than only buying products for relatives, friends, or
yourself, now you may also make donation
purchases by buying any “Buy to Donate Gift Set” on the mall. The respective
social enterprises will then deliver the gift set to those in need on your
behalf. Not only can this support the meaningful work of social enterprises, it
can also help the needy and convey love through consumption. The meaning of
consumption is therefore beyond what it has ever been.
Shopping Rewards to Shop Social from Offline to Online
With multiple
shopping rewards, TECM continues to partner up with over 100 social enterprises
supporting the elderly, the disabled, grassroots women,
chronically ill people, and etc. through the Shopping Rewards Scheme.
Various promotions and discounts will be offered to social enterprises’ supporters. For anyone
who shop at designated social enterprises from November 15th, 2021
to February 28th, 2022, they can earn a stamp for every HK$50 of purchases.
With the number of stamps earned, consumers may redeem for additional products
and coupons from social enterprises! Additional online discounts will also be
provided to echo this year’s theme! Stay tuned and don’t miss any rewards!
Must-Go for Families! Preview on Christmas Bazaar with Social
Enterprises
TECM will be hosting
another key event this year – the family themed Christmas Bazaar. It will
definitely be a family must-go event where an array of performances and
workshops will be organized alongside with many booths selling special products
and services from local social enterprises. Parents can take this opportunity
to meet some of the local social enterprises and learn about their works with
their children and thus cultivate the culture of caring for the
disadvantaged, environment and more. In addition to “Shop Social”, we can also “Learn Social” at the same
time! Take the first step in changing the world with ethical consumption and
have an extraordinary and meaningful Christmas with your children!
Christmas Bazaar with Social Enterprises
Date：December 11th
– 12th, 2021
Time：11am to 6pm
Venue：Flat B, 3/F, Shun Luen Factory Building, 86 To Kwa
Wan Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong
TECM MALL : Featured Social
Enterprises
TECM has
brought together myriads of social enterprises, each of which has its own story
and mission, yet shares the view of helping the needy in the city.
Amity
Martin
established Amity in 2019. “Food for Good” summarizes his spirit of poverty
alleviation. Their work ranges from regularly donating food or
daily necessities in the North District of Hong Kong to relieve the burden of
low-income families, to hiring the retired elderly, grassroots
women, and the disadvantaged groups to make their own
brand of Amity’s food series such as tea leaves, marshmallow biscuits, and
other snacks. Amity encourages consumers to shop for social enterprise’s
products which can indirectly give back to the needy. Furthermore,
Amity progressively helps improve various community problems and is
committed to assisting the subdivided households, solitary elders, and outsourced cleaners
from the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department in the North
District. With the support from great partners, Amity was able to donate 4.5
tons of food and daily necessities to the needy last year, which is encouraging
and worthy of further support.
Hair Rejuvenation
Hair
Rejuvenation is a social enterprise well-known for its hair treatment,
hair-dyeing, oil treatment, and ginger therapy in the way of traditional
Chinese medicine. Amy, the founder of Hair Rejuvenation, was born with impaired
hearing. She then realized the difficulty of finding employment for people with
hearing loss, and thus determined to set up a social
enterprise to help the disadvantaged groups on employment and also offer training
to develop their work skills. In the meantime, Amy wishes to convey the message that people with
hearing loss can communicate as effectively as ordinary
people without boundaries and that their ability is no
different from the ordinary. Upon training, the employees of Hair Rejuvenation
are often praised by customers for their attentive service, in which it
is the perfect proof that people with hearing loss can also work as diligently.
The Third Day
The Third Day
is a social enterprise that uses
“Do Nothing Farming” to maintain the ecological balance of the
farmland and sustain the biodiversity of the area. The founders Alfred and
Vasco believe that the best tea needs to be grown in an all-natural way, where
the land is preserved as its original and natural state so that the tea can
always grow in the purest environment and retain the pure natural taste for a
long time. The Third Day also introduces the benefits of natural planting to ethnic
minority farmers in the northern Thailand. By doing so, they are able to share the
technology with them so the farmers can further improve their lives. In
addition, they also cooperates with other local social
enterprises to launch different products, which can not only help the
restoration of land in northern Thailand but also take actions in sending blessings to those in need in Hong Kong.
Other featured social enterprises on TECM MALL：
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Happeriod
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Grow Something
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StarUp Wonders
StarUp Wonders is founded and operated by a group
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