Supporting Palestinians displaced by conflict in Gaza & West Bank
WCK Opens New Field Kitchen in Northern Gaza
World Central Kitchen (WCK) has resumed large-scale meal production in northern Gaza with the opening of our newest facility. On its first day of operation, the team prepared more than 3,000 meals for nearby hospitals and communities. Since October 2023, WCK has served more than 150 million meals in Gaza.
José Andrés: What I Saw in Gaza
When you see our teams at work in Gaza, you can see the best of humanity. Palestinians cooking for Palestinians, taking care of strangers, taking care of their community one plate at a time.
WCK to Scale Up to 1 Million Meals a Day in Gaza
WCK is seeking to rapidly scale up production to an unprecedented one million hot meals a day.
The ambitious plan requires an increase to five high-capacity field kitchens and enough supplies to outfit scores of smaller community kitchens at the neighborhood level throughout Gaza.
WCK will also need extended supply chain access through multiple entry points and the ability to send in more than 100 trucks daily, as well as permission to directly import fuel.
We are ready to do so much more — one million hot meals a day.
José Andrés
WCK Founder
José Andrés visits Gaza team
José was on the ground in Gaza today, at the WCK Field Kitchen in Deir al-Balah. He met with members of our dedicated Palestinian team. We are ready to scale up to serve 1 million hot meals daily for families in need.
Your Gaza Questions Answered
Answers to the top questions about WCK’s efforts in Gaza.
Chefs For Gaza
Drop in to a WCK water station
Thousands of families receive clean drinking water each day at WCK’s Deir al-Balah water. With resources in Gaza critically limited, our team is working nonstop to ensure people have access to both nourishing meals and safe water.
WCK Water is a Lifeline
Our resilient and resourceful Palestinian team on the ground is supplying critically needed clean water.
Chefs For Gaza
WCK’s Mobile Bakery
Introducing the newest member of the WCK fleet in Gaza! This powerhouse food truck can bake 3,000 loaves of pita bread per hour. The Kingdom of Jordan supported the building and transport of the truck, which could help make a big difference for the meals of the people it serves
100+ million meals for Gaza
Despite significant restrictions on humanitarian aid entering Gaza, our teams have delivered well over 100 million meals by land, sea, and air. We’ve set up four large-capacity Field Kitchens in southern and central Gaza and established a network of Palestinian-led, WCK-supported Community Kitchens that provide thousands of meals every day. With the help of local partners, we are expanding our food distribution efforts to the north, where the growing influx of returning families is increasing the demand for assistance.
Palestinian Voices
Hear from our staff in Gaza who work hard every day to cook and distribute nourishing food.
WCK values shine through in Gaza
Our Gaza team members embody WCK’s core values of empathy, adaptability, resilience, and collaboration. We invite you to read some of their inspiring stories.
Khaled
“We spend the entire day thinking and trying to get food. The war imposed on us famine and the lack of the minimum necessities of life. But hope was always there, sent by WCK, which did not forget to help us and always provide us with meals.”
Loai
“We crafted this clay oven to bake bread and feed our children. These are earnest efforts to survive.”
Ahmed
“Since the beginning of the war, my family and I have been suffering scourges: no food, no drink, and none of the necessities of life. WCK did not leave us alone and always provided us with assistance.”
Meet our partner in Gaza: Anera
Anera is one of WCK’s partners in Gaza and their organization has been focused on helping Palestinians for decades. Their staff on the ground is doing everything possible to deliver meals to families in hard-to-reach places, even while suffering personal losses of family members and friends.
I always have to hope, I’m always an optimist. I’m on the side of humanity and humanitarianism.
Sean Carroll
President and CEO of Anera
Help us provide food to families in need.
Latest from the ground
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WCK is working shoulder to shoulder with kitchen partners across southern Lebanon to provide meals to families displaced by conflict in the region. In Saida, one of our restaurant partners has scaled to cook 1,500 meals daily. In total, our teams are providing more than 5,000 meals each day to people sheltering in southern Lebanon.
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WCK’s Chef Samar is in Khan Younis where today we began operations at our newest Field Kitchen. Meals from here will be distributed to Palestinian families sheltering in southern Gaza. Named Zomi’s Kitchen in honor of one of our team members killed in the April IDF attack, this space joins our Deir al-Balah and Al-Mawasi kitchens as our third large-scale kitchen currently in operation. Our team was forced to stop cooking at our first Field Kitchen in Rafah as attacks on the city intensified.
