Disaster Relief Pt. 2: From 'Food Line' to Front Line
06/23/20 • 21 min
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In this no-frills episode, Tom Colicchio hands the mic over to two guests whose experiences collecting MRE's in so-called food lines have lead them to careers on the front lines of disaster relief.
First, we hear a first-person account from Blaine Fisher, a Louisiana native and former paramedic who now teaches Emergency Management at Tulane University. We also hear from Keron Bascombe of Tech4Agri, a Trinidad and Tobago-based social enterprise aimed at providing "AgriRecoveryKits" to people who are food insecure due to natural disasters and the pandemic. But first, we pick up where we left off in Part 1 with Nate Mook of World Central Kitchen to talk about government's role in disaster preparedness,
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In this no-frills episode, Tom Colicchio hands the mic over to two guests whose experiences collecting MRE's in so-called food lines have lead them to careers on the front lines of disaster relief.
First, we hear a first-person account from Blaine Fisher, a Louisiana native and former paramedic who now teaches Emergency Management at Tulane University. We also hear from Keron Bascombe of Tech4Agri, a Trinidad and Tobago-based social enterprise aimed at providing "AgriRecoveryKits" to people who are food insecure due to natural disasters and the pandemic. But first, we pick up where we left off in Part 1 with Nate Mook of World Central Kitchen to talk about government's role in disaster preparedness,
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Previous Episode
Disaster Relief Pt. 1: World Central Kitchen Spotlight
Who's making sure people eat during times of disaster? In part one of our episodes looking into disaster relief, World Central Kitchen CEO Nate Mook joins Tom to examine how our governments respond with food aid in localized catastrophes like we saw in NYC after 9/11 and in global emergencies like COVID-19. They also discuss how to incite lasting change with the FEED Act.
Resources
- H.R.6700 - FEED Act
- World Central Kitchen
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Citizen Chef with Tom Colicchio - Disaster Relief Pt. 2: From 'Food Line' to Front Line
Transcript
You know, prior to to to COVID, we had thirty eight million Americans who are on snap our our food stamps, and we're seeing the long lines of people who are lined up for miles and sometimes waiting in their cars for hours to receive food from a food bank. And these are people who have found themselves in a position they never thought in a million years that they would be in. And often these are the same people who pointed at people who needed ass
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