At the US-Mexico border, thousands of asylum seekers – primarily Haitian – crossed the Rio Grande, taking shelter under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas. What started as a few hundred people quickly turned to nearly 16,000, including many young children.
WCK arrived on site to see how we could best support people in need. In the beginning, our team partnered with local restaurants to ensure meals were available immediately. A local restaurant that is part of the Koko’s Restaurant family prepared thousands of plates of chicken, rice, and fresh vegetables on our first day of service. Koko’s Restaurant in McAllen, Texas is a longtime partner to WCK, preparing and delivering meals to migrant and refugee families along the border over the past year.
Working with various government agencies near where the camp was established, the WCK Relief Team coordinated and managed service of both lunch and dinner each day, along with passing out water. We set up our Relief Food Truck in town to cook up thousands of servings of hot meals each day. And because there were so many families with young children, we helped to distribute diapers and baby food.
As families made their way through the asylum process, the number of people in the camp quickly decreased and WCK concluded our response. Our work supporting migrants and refugees at the US-Mexico border continues in Tijuana and parts of Texas.
