Status Updates From The World Central Kitchen C...

The word community shares its root with commensality-the act of eating together. You don't need to have been through a crisis to know that sitting around a table and breaking bread with friends and loved ones can uplift and heal-remember, longer tables, not higher walls.

Usually when people think about first respond-ers, in their minds they're thinking firefighters, police officers, people like that," said Yamil López, one of the core team members…For more than six months after the hurricane, the team cooked, reaching every municipality on the island and serving almost 4 million meals. A staggering 20,000 volunteers worked out of 20 kitchens and 10 food trucks around the island,