“When you are working with people who have just lost everything, our role, more than feeding, is to try to increase morale,” says chef Ivan Francisco Escobar, underscoring the importance food can have on uplifting people’s spirits
Escobar says the survivors need every possible help to overcome this tragedy.
“From Adana to Antakya, you can start seeing the damage. But when you get close to Antakya, it’s devastation, complete devastation.” “When it shakes and everything moves like this it is difficult. I’m in a field kitchen,” says Escobar, who put together the kitchen on the patio of a destroyed building.
Escobar said as soon as he saw the images following the devastating Feb 6 quakes, he contacted his superiors at WCK and told them to send him to Türkiye immediately. Escobar describes the meals his team produces as “authentic” and “homemade”, an extension of the NGO founder Andres' philosophy that “food relief is not just a meal that keeps hunger away. It’s a plate of hope. It tells you in your darkest hour that someone, somewhere, cares about you.
He says they typically approach the camp and get redirected by Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Authority in the direction of the team’s field kitchen.
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