Janet Gramza
and Harold McNeil
News Staff Reporters
Updated
1 of 3
Volunteers with the World Central Kitchen fill containers of food to hand out to the residents that live near the Jefferson Avenue Tops Market.
Mark Mulville/Buffalo News
Elliot Kaye, Vice President for Policy at World Central Kitchen, helps package produce for distribution at the WCK site on Jefferson Avenue Monday. Kaye and other WCK officials are in town to visit the site and consult with community leaders on how and when the emergency food relief org will pull out of Buffalo.
Janet Gramza / Buffalo News
People line up to receive free meals from Buffalo's Best Grill & Catering's food truck Monday as part of the World Central Kitchen site at Jefferson Avenue and East Utica Street to serve the "food desert" community in the wake of the racist shootings at the Jefferson Avenue Tops market.
Janet Gramza
and Harold McNeil
News Staff Reporters
When it comes to providing emergency food aid after a catastrophe, World Central Kitchen has a well-established method – fly in, set up sites to provide hot meals at least twice daily until the crisis eases, then fly out – sometimes leaving a community kitchen in the hands of local chefs and volunteers.
Elliot Kaye, Vice President for Policy at World Central Kitchen, helps package produce for distribution at the WCK site on Jefferson Avenue Monday. Kaye and other WCK officials are in town to visit the site and consult with community leaders on how and when the emergency food relief org will pull out of Buffalo.
People line up to receive free meals from Buffalo's Best Grill & Catering's food truck Monday as part of the World Central Kitchen site at Jefferson Avenue and East Utica Street to serve the "food desert" community in the wake of the racist shootings at the Jefferson Avenue Tops market.
