Andrés: WCK deploys to disasters before checking its bank balance
José Andrés · How I Built Resilience: Live with José Andrés · Apr 30, 2020 · at 17:55
Chef José Andrés discusses the funding and operational model of his disaster relief non-profit, World Central Kitchen, during emergency deployments.
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“If we ever look at the bank account of World Central Kitchen, before we went to Bahamas, or Puerto Rico, or North Carolina, or Florida, or Indonesia, and we base our response on the money we had in the bank, we wouldn't do one meal yet.”
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