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    Media Alert: As Attacks on Ukraine’s Energy Infrastructure Intensify, WCK Prepares to Feed Communities Through Another Winter of War

    As Ukraine prepares for another winter of war, intensified Russian attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure are threatening to leave families without electricity, heating and water as temperatures begin to fall. World…

  • Chef José & team serving thousands of meals after Hurricane Laura

    Chef José & team serving thousands of meals after Hurricane Laura

    Last week, Hurricane Laura hit the Gulf Coast of the United States as a Category 4 storm—one of the strongest to ever make landfall in the state of Louisiana. Now close to…

    8/31/2020
  • One million meals and counting in New Orleans

    One million meals and counting in New Orleans

    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…

    8/22/2020
  • Historic wildfires: WCK cooking across Northern California

    Historic wildfires: WCK cooking across Northern California

    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…

    8/22/2020
  • WCK Activates in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

    WCK Activates in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

    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…

    8/19/2020
  • Beirut: Update from the ground

    Beirut: Update from the ground

    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…

    8/13/2020
  • WCK Activates in Beirut, Lebanon

    WCK Activates in Beirut, Lebanon

    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…

    8/07/2020
  • 25 million meals & A message from José

    25 million meals & A message from José

    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…

    8/06/2020
  • A Day with WCK’s Relief Team in Oakland, California

    A Day with WCK’s Relief Team in Oakland, California

    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…

    7/29/2020
  • WCK’s Restaurants for the People Highlight: Mott Haven

    WCK’s Restaurants for the People Highlight: Mott Haven

    “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…

    7/22/2020
  • Meet the Relief Team: New Mexico & Navajo Nation

    Meet the Relief Team: New Mexico & Navajo Nation

    “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.…

    7/02/2020

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    José Andrés on feeding the communities in need

    CBS | 4/06/2025

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