World Central Kitchen

In 2024, WCK supported families affected by conflict, natural disasters, and the worsening impacts of the climate crisis in 20 countries, providing over 109 million meals. Everywhere we respond, we see the best of humanity show up as neighbors join us in bringing hope to families in need—one plate of food at a time. #ChefsForTheWorld

WCK's Mike Bean spoke with News Nation about our ongoing relief efforts in North Carolina and Tennessee, delivering food to remote communities via helicopter, and how our strategy has adapted through the winter. Watch here: https://bit.ly/3FK1dcq

🍖 After severe storms and tornadoes swept through Florissant, Missouri, Mike Johnson — WCK Chef Corps member and owner of Sugarfire Smokehouse — stepped up. Sugarfire and WCK have been providing comforting BBQ meals to communities affected in Florissant. “I’m honored to be associated with World Central Kitchen,” said Mike. “To have the opportunity to serve the community as they recover from the tornado — it’s a great feeling to be in a position to help.” Read more about Mike and the other BBQ chefs stepping up for #ChefsForThePeople here: https://bit.ly/4iKWIgd

Linda Roth, WCK's Chief Communications Officer, recently joined Patricia McLoughlin on The Anthem Awards' The Negative Space podcast to discuss what it takes to serve food in communities affected by disaster. Listen to their conversation wherever you get your podcasts, or watch the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/eFJUfSvc

WCK’s Relief Team is in South Texas after storms caused widespread flooding. We are already working alongside local restaurant partners to serve meals to impacted families and mobilizing to identify communities in need. At the same time, additional WCK teams are responding to multiple global disasters—more info on our profile. This is a quickly evolving situation—we’ll share more information as soon as we have it. https://lnkd.in/epDMw4V5 📸: CNN Read more from CNN: https://lnkd.in/esz6HktC

WCK’s Relief Team is en route to Southeast Asia, where a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Myanmar and Thailand. The quake caused massive destruction to buildings, infrastructure, and communities, and local authorities remain concerned about aftershocks and resulting tsunamis. This is a quickly evolving situation—we’ll share more information as soon as we have it. Read more: wck.org/news/se-asia-quake 📸: NPR Read more from NPR: https://lnkd.in/gPW6-MzK

Firefighters are working to contain wildfires in western North Carolina. These communities are already dealing with recovery from Hurricane Helene—WCK is serving meals to first responders battling the fires and supporting their neighborhoods. Read more from @citizentimes here: https://bit.ly/4kYl7Aw #ChefsForNorthCarolina

Fighting in Gaza is escalating, with Israeli strikes across the territory and no designated humanitarian zones. We are continuing to serve meals - WCK is assessing conditions daily and adapting based on where we can safely operate. Our network of kitchens and restaurants is maximizing supplies and available kitchen capacity to serve more than 300,000 meals daily. #ChefsForGaza

After starting with World Central Kitchen in the fall, about a week before Christmas, I joined an incredible group of people for the beginning of cyclone response on the other side of the world. We cooked fish for Christmas dinner over a wood fire when the power was out, hauled supplies between islands on the ferry, and got to work. I feel really lucky to have spent day after day capturing this incredible team in action, whether that meant building up a large-scale kitchen and warehouse, working with individual restaurants and cooking teams, or distributing meals to every type of community you could imagine. This month, the incredible WCK team served their last meal in Mayotte as part of that response to Cyclone Chido. I sort of still can't believe what they managed to do - here's how it unfolded: #ChefsForMayotte

As we close out #ChefsForMayotte, we are reflecting on the unique challenges the team overcame. Here's a peek into how we served over 1.4 million meals to communities impacted by Cyclone Chido.