600 Million+ Meals Served: How Urgency Defines WCK
Since our founding in 2010, WCK has moved with urgency to meet people where they are. When crisis strikes and people are hungry, food is needed now. Reaching 600 million meals is a milestone that reflects not only scale, but speed: the belief that the first meal served after a disaster is just as important as every meal that follows. That first plate offers nourishment, dignity, and a signal that help has arrived.
Over the past 15 years, WCK teams have shown up in communities impacted by hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, wildfires, conflict, and displacement—often within hours. From sandwiches handed out in the earliest moments of a response to large-scale kitchen networks sustaining families over months and years, our work has been guided by one simple truth: people cannot wait to eat.
Our challenges may be big, but together we are bigger.
José Andrés
WCK Founder
This milestone belongs to the local cooks, chefs, drivers, volunteers, and partners who step up—often while facing the same crises themselves—to feed their neighbors. It belongs to our global partners who open kitchens, source ingredients, and help us reach families in hard-to-reach places. And it belongs to our supporters around the world whose generosity makes it possible for WCK to act immediately, without hesitation.
600 million meals represent countless moments of care: a warm plate in cold weather, a familiar dish in an unfamiliar place, a meal that brings strength during uncertainty. We are deeply grateful to everyone who has made this work possible—and we remain committed to moving fast, cooking locally, and serving with compassion for every meal still to come.
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