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    WCK Founder José Andrés named one of U.S. News’ Best Leaders of 2025

    WCK founder José Andrés was named one of U.S. News’ Best Leaders of 2025.

  • By air & sea: Reaching islands devastated by Hurricane Beryl

    By air & sea: Reaching islands devastated by Hurricane Beryl

    WCK’s Relief Team has mobilized across the Caribbean where Hurricane Beryl left a path of destruction. Beryl was the earliest Category 5 hurricane ever seen during hurricane season, and it hit islands…

    7/05/2024
  • First Alert: WCK mobilizes across Caribbean in response to Hurricane Beryl

    First Alert: WCK mobilizes across Caribbean in response to Hurricane Beryl

    WCK’s Relief Team is mobilizing to Antigua, Grenada, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines as Hurricane Beryl leaves a path of destruction across several Caribbean islands.

    7/02/2024
  • Gracias Guerrero

    Gracias Guerrero

    World Central Kitchen has wrapped up our response to Hurricane Otis in Mexico eight weeks after serving our first plates of food.

    12/20/2023
  • Posadas in Mexico

    Posadas in Mexico

    The holiday season is in full swing in Mexico, and WCK teams are spreading cheer as our efforts in response to Hurricane Otis wind down. Across Mexico, families mark Christmas with traditional…

    12/15/2023
  • Guerrero is on the mend

    Guerrero is on the mend

    Rubble cleared, bridges repaired, supply chains coming back online, and homes being rebuilt are all signs that communities throughout the state of Guerrero are on the path to recovery after Hurricane Otis.

    12/08/2023
  • Chef Corps Spotlight: Meet Chef Luis Martinez

    Chef Corps Spotlight: Meet Chef Luis Martinez

    Chef Luis is from a Zapotec pueblo in Oaxaca, Mexico and immigrated to the US in 2005. When he learned World Central Kitchen was responding to Hurricane Otis in Acapulco, he was…

    11/29/2023
  • Reaching hardest-hit communities in Mexico after Hurricane Otis

    Reaching hardest-hit communities in Mexico after Hurricane Otis

    In the weeks since Category 5 Hurricane Otis made landfall along the Pacific coast of Mexico, World Central Kitchen has provided much needed aid—from food and water to masa flour and bridge…

    11/22/2023
  • Hurricane Otis causes devastation after rapidly intensifying

    Hurricane Otis causes devastation after rapidly intensifying

    Since first arriving in Mexico, WCK teams have been airlifting thousands of meals and bottles of water into areas cut off by the storm’s damage and working with local partners to support…

    11/02/2023
  • Relief Team responds to Hurricane Otis in Mexico

    Relief Team responds to Hurricane Otis in Mexico

    The World Central Kitchen Relief Team is in Mexico to assess food and water needs after the strongest Pacific hurricane to ever hit the country caused catastrophic damage. 

    10/25/2023
  • Helping hands after Hurricane Idalia

    Helping hands after Hurricane Idalia

    Hurricane Idalia made landfall along Florida’s Big Bend late August before heading into Georgia and then further northeast. WCK used a tailor-made strategy of centralized distribution sites along with door-to-door deliveries to…

    9/11/2023

WCK in the Media

  • WCK Resumes Gaza Operations After Nearly 7-Week Pause

    New York Times | 6/23/2025
  • Chefs For The World

    José Andrés on feeding the communities in need

    CBS | 4/06/2025

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