michigan state university, naming several others, most of whom remain in critical condition. today, funeral services were held for two of the slain msu students, and in just a minute, i will talk to a michigan congresswoman with her reaction to this tragedy, which was on my mind even as i was marching in florida on wednesday, joining a peoples protest against the state s governor, ron desantis, and his escalating war on black history. it was while i was on the ground in florida that i got word that the shooter who massacred nearly a dozen black shoppers at a buffalo supermarket two years ago had been sentenced to life in prison without parole. later, i learned that all five of the former memphis police officers charged with murder, murdering tyre nichols had pled not guilty. i thought about tyre s mother and her grief, and i also thought about so many grieving mothers in other parts of the world right now. as turkey and syria recover from the massive earthquake that has now k
ask you this, because i know that you do such good work. we are proud of you and the world central kitchen, what you ve done in harlem and the other places during the covid-19 pandemic, and buffalo after the massacre over there. and so, i know on the ground what you do. what can people watch, watching around the country, due to help with what you re doing in syria, as well as in ukraine. what could people do to help aid world central kitchen? well, obviously, donating to world central kitchen through wcc dot org, food is something of interest to you. but there are many other needs. for those organizations, very often, local organizations who are amazed, sometimes people are unaware, so we tell everybody, if you need support in health, hospitals, just find those organizations that are doing a good job inside turkey or inside syria.
chef josé andrés, head of world central kitchen. chef josé andrés, it is past when i am where you are in turkey, some very thankful for you to join us at this late hour. you started your relief response into cities near the epicenter of the earthquake, with a simple delivery of just water and sandwiches. and i know that you just returned from a visit in syria. how has the operation changed since you first arrived in the area? well, let me tell you very quickly, we expanded to more than 17 cities, and many other small towns. we are distributing more than 250 different distribution points. we are in the main ten cities where it has been total destruction. and right now, we are doing
i will say that community as a whole has somehow forgotten those poor people that after this lengthy war that they ve been having for years, they ve been badly affected by an earthquake, and with no help. right now, we are doing around 30, 000, 40,000 meals a day inside syria. that s why i went today to visit the operations, and ihh, our partner, an amazing ngo, has been taking care and providing relief efforts in syria. and that s what you do on that point, you and i have worked together in the past, for example during the coronavirus pandemic, distributing food to the needy in harlem, new york. i mean, your organization, known to have a system where everywhere you go, you identify local restaurants and community partners, like you did with us. you support local products, work with local chefs, local food providers, and local
around 300,000 meals per day. we are about to reach 2 million meals. and what i can say is one thing, the people of turkey thrown in the middle, restaurants, anybody that could cook, they have been providing meals to every single person that lost their home. i think the wall every country has to learn about how well the turkish people tried to take care of people after an emergency. i m very proud that we have been able to join hundreds of turkish people that are working with us, being our eyes, because who better than the locals to know where the need is. for world central kitchen, that is very valuable. after the last 13 years i m very, very blessed and proud that we ve been partnering with them, on top of for many days now, expanding our effort inside syria, which