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'Money does no good in a bank': World Central Kitchen's Jose Andres urges donors to give more
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Chef Jose Andres attends City Harvest Presents The 2025 Gala: Carnaval at Cipriani 42nd Street on Tuesday, April 22, 2025, in New York. - photo by Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP
José Andrés remembers when he went to Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake that the government estimates killed more than 300,000 people. “We began cooking in the streets, you know?” said the James Beard award-winning Spanish chef, whose group operates more than 40 restaurants around the world. “I’m feeding people after an earthquake so there were no photographers or cameras, it was me with my friends doing it.” That was the start of World Central Kitchen, which has grown into a major nonprofit, raising hundreds of millions of dollars annually, as it quickly provides meals in response to humanitarian crises.