(From left to right) Crystal Kwok and daughter, Cara G., Eunis Chan, Jones Lang LaSalle Chief Operating Officer & Head of Leasing Gavin Morgan, Janet Ma and son,  Tom Gaffney, Head of Retail at Jones Lang LaSalle, and Executive Director of Feeding HK, Gabrielle Kirstein with their collected bread.

Celebrities run for bread in a food drive to feed the hungry in Hong Kong

Jones Lang LaSalle, a professional services firm specializing in real estate services, have grouped together a team of volunteers and celebrity models, Rosemary, Cara G and Eunis Chan, as well as celebrity guests Geoff Wong, Janet Ma, with her son, and Crystal Kwok, with her daughter to run for bread this evening.

The Bread Run, organized by Feeding Hong Kong, a food bank dedicated to redistributing surplus food to people in need, started at 7.30pm. Celebrities and Jones Lang LaSalle executives gathered at Jones Lang LaSalle’s office in Three Pacific Place, and were divided into teams of two.

Close to 10pm, the participants gathered back at the office of Jones Lang LaSalle with the bags of bread collected. The team from Feeding Hong Kong packaged and stored the piles of bread collected in preparation for delivery to partner charities the following morning. The charities will then be tasked with distributing the bread to communities in need.

Brian Brenner, Jones Lang LaSalle CSR Ambassador, expressed his thanks to the volunteers and celebrities by stating “It is a great pleasure to see the involvement of members of Jones Lang LaSalle, and of course our dear celebrity friends, in contributing to such a worthy cause. Making a difference in the community is what our company is all about.”

As part of Jones Lang LaSalle’s Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives, the professional services firm has plans to conduct the Bread Run once every quarter.