WCK's Chef Relief team has responded to the civil unrest in Haiti by activating our Culinary School to provide hot meals to the most vulnerable communities. Violent protests which have rocked the capitol city of Port-Au-Prince since early February have made it difficult for communities to obtain food & water.
Read MoreLast week, World Central Kitchen’s Chef Relief Team touched down in Cúcuta, on the border of Venezuela and Colombia, to conduct an initial assessment of the situation and build connections with local partners. There’s widespread hunger amongst Venezuelans – and has been for quite some time. Before the borders closed, it's estimated that 40,000 Venezuelans were crossing the border for food and other essential supplies each day.
Read MoreIt's been a long night for Habib, who has been sitting on the beach of Labuhan for hours now. After his family lost their home due to a massive tsunami, he and a group of twenty others have been keeping watch from sunset to sunrise every night to warn the rest of the village of any coming tsunamis or danger.
Read MoreAs the federal government reopened last week after the longest shutdown in U.S. history, WCK is proud to have served 100,000+ meals to federal workers and their families in D.C., and partnered with 400+ restaurants in 35 states across the nation to serve several hundred thousand more meals nationwide.
Read MoreIf you're a restaurant, food truck, non-profit, or business interested in serving meals in your community to some of the 800,000 federal employees impacted by the shutdown, we want you! Join World Central Kitchen's nationwide campaign to provide hot meals to federal employees and their families as part of #ChefsForFeds Nation.
Read MoreEarly Thanksgiving morning, WCK's relief kitchens in Paradise, CA were aflutter with energy. Volunteers began peeling potatoes, rows of turkeys were lined up waiting to be smoked, and an army of pumpkin pies were lined up for the ovens, just waiting to be baked. Anywhere you went, you could feel the energy and excitement of Thanksgiving - even in a town like Paradise, which just a few weeks ago was completely destroyed by the Camp Fire.
Read MoreThanks to the help of incredible volunteers like Michelle, we have served over 50,000 meals to victims of the Camp Fire in Northern California and the Woolsey Fire in Southern California. But the need is still great — both fires are less than 50% contained, and thousands of families and first responders are relying on our Chef Relief Team's daily delivery of hot, fresh meals.
Read MoreOne month after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, World Central Kitchen's Chef Relief Team has served over 237,128 meals to victims of the disaster and emergency responders in 44+ locations.
Read MoreLess than a month Hurricane Michael (the 3rd largest hurricane to hit the U.S.) devastated the Florida Panhandle, World Central Kitchen's Chef Relief team has served over 150,000 meals to victims of the storm and local emergency response teams.
Read MoreLearning from our experience with Hurricane Florence, our Chef Relief Team was on the ground days before Hurricane Michael struck to preposition supplies and develop our response plan. Our team set up in the Bay County Emergency Operations Center, utilized by local fire, police, highway patrol, and search and rescue teams, in addition to the National Guard and other response units. As these teams began gearing up for long days and nights rescuing people trapped by the hurricane, our team began preparing hot meals to fuel their critical work.
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