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In response to the COVID-19 crisis, WCK’s team in New Orleans has been getting fresh, nourishing meals out to the community each day since April. The dishes we are providing for residents…

There are currently 560 wildfires burning across the state of California. Last weekend, a series of more than 12,000 lightning strikes hit the state, igniting several of what are now some the…

On Monday, August 10, Cedar Rapids, Iowa was devastated by an incredibly destructive derecho—a storm with hurricane-force winds. Thousands of homes, vehicles, and buildings were damaged, 50% of the city’s tree canopy…

Nearly three weeks ago, on Tuesday, August 4, an explosion at the port in Beirut, Lebanon, devastated the city. The blast was the largest non-nuclear explosion in modern history. More than 200…

WCK is on the ground in Beirut, Lebanon after the devastating explosion on August 4, 2020. Much of the city is covered in broken glass and thousands of volunteers are in the…

In February, WCK got a call: a cruise ship was coming into port in Yokohama, Japan, with a large number of cases of a new, relatively unknown disease. Our team used its…

Since the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States in mid-March, WCK’s Relief Team has deployed across the country (as well as in Spain, Indonesia, & the Dominican Republic) to feed frontline healthcare…

“If it wasn’t for World Central Kitchen, I would never have been able to sustain my restaurant. In mid-March, I had to close my doors. I tried to do delivery only, but…

“It’s not the meal… It’s the somebody loves you, somebody cares about you, somebody is thinking about you. Somebody got in a truck and drove out here to serve you a meal.…

Even as businesses have begun to partially reopen, tens of millions of Americans remain out of work. And with Covid cases once again on the rise, the future for many restaurants remains…