WCK's Afghanistan Earthquake Response (Sept. 2025)

In eastern Afghanistan, a powerful 6.0 earthquake shattered communities already burdened by years of hardship. Families lost their homes, loved ones, and access to food and water. Together with our partner, Instant Aid, we set up a kitchen in Nurgal—near the quake’s epicenter—and began serving meals to families and patients in medical centers. What started with 1,000 daily meals quickly grew to 8,000 as needs escalated along with water distribution. In total, we provided over 1.5 million meals and 525,000+ gallons of water.

Instant Aid has supported WCK’s previous responses in the region. This marked the third time we have partnered in response to an earthquake in Afghanistan, after serving hundreds of thousands of meals following quakes in 2022 and 2023. Together, we also responded to flooding in Afghanistan in 2022 and to the earthquakes in Türkiye in early 2023.

WCK is first to the frontlines, providing meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises. When disaster strikes, WCK’s Relief Team mobilizes to the frontlines with the urgency of now to start cooking and provide meals to people in need. By partnering with organizations on the ground and activating a network of food trucks or emergency kitchens, WCK provides freshly made, nutritious meals to communities impacted by disasters quickly and effectively. We know that good food provides not only nourishment, but also comfort and hope, especially in times of crisis around the world.

WCK has provided more than 500 million fresh, nourishing meals for communities around the world. Your donation today will be used to support our emergency food relief efforts.

WCK Tags:
food, relief, food relief, food security, aid, crisis, international, disaster, disaster relief, hunger, hunger relief, emergency, meals, hot meals, fresh, meals, cook, comfort, nourish, people, community, local, global, humanitarian, climate, climate disaster, kitchen, Jose Andres, chef, earthquake, Afghanistan, tremor