Feature: Community Organization for Summer 2020!
Hello, Community!
Today is an exciting day!
I’m thrilled to introduce you to this summer’s featured community organization, which will receive 30% of all donations from Treetrunkwise community yoga and meditation classes through September!
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: Food First-Responders
Meet World Central Kitchen, “food first responders” with a community-strong approach! I love WCK not just for what they do, but for how they do it!
WCK is an organization harnessing the power of people, local infrastructure, and resources to feed communities facing emergencies, shortages, or other challenges. WCK’s operations are local to whatever urgency is being faced, creating emergency kitchens in local restaurants with the support of owners and staff, distribution centers through local churches and community centers, and making important connections by including community leaders and organizers who are plugged into the local networks. WCK also works to source ingredients locally, cutting down on costs and time while supporting small, local farms, fisheries, and food businesses through their Plow to Plate program.
By working in this way, WCK is not only able to provide amazing, high quality and delicious meals with local ingredients and recipes, they can do it while supporting local businesses, helping to keep staff working, and helping communities to come together to support each other.
In 2020, World Central Kitchen has been providing meals all over the U.S. to those hit especially hard by the Covid-crisis. They've served in Oakland, Queens, and New Orleans, as well as to the Navajo Nation in New Mexico and to farm workers in California.
WCK has also popped up to feed voters in long lines in Louisville, Kentucky, residents and first-responders in Cedar Rapids, Iowa after a storm devastated the area, and now firefighters, emergency workers, and evacuees as wildfires rage across California. Globally, they've been on the ground in Beirut since the devastating explosion earlier this month flooding first responders, volunteers, and the many folks affected by the explosion.
Food helps us face whatever is before us. It gives us strength, energy, and nourishment. I love that WCK doesn't separate first responders from those affected by emergencies– they just see whole communities and the opportunity to use a community-strong approach. Everyone needs to eat and everyone can appreciate a lovingly prepared meal. WCK brings communities together to support their resilience and their efforts to get through anything... together.
I’m so grateful to be able to offer yoga and meditation classes to help folks find some ease and stability through these rapidly changing times. And it makes my heart happy to know that by sharing healing space within my own community, together we can create good waves that ripple out even further.
Every time you make a donation for community yoga and meditation classes through the end of September, you’ll not only be supporting the continued offering of these community classes, you’ll be supporting World Central Kitchen’s mission to feed communities while supporting local people and resources.
Check out more of the work World Central Kitchen is doing on their website WCK.org!
DONATIONS & MATCHING: 30% of all donations made for community yoga & meditation classes through September will support this organization, so drop in and donate if you can, or just donate to support the offerings! I’ve also designated 30% of all donations for community classes made SINCE JULY to be donated to WCK! And to double our community power, Treetrunkwise Yoga will MATCH the final amount collected for WCK!
Find out when and how to join us for a community class, donate for classes you’ve already taken, or just pitch in to support the offerings– here!
Thanks for being part of this community!
With Great Love,
Rachael
*Image credit World Central Kitchen, via WCK.org, linked to original page.