World Central Kitchen (WCK) is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization that provides food relief. It was founded in 2010 by Spanish American chef and restaurateur José Andrés following the earthquake in Haiti, and has subsequently responded to Hurricane Harvey, the 2018 lower Puna eruption, 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, the ongoing Gaza humanitarian crisis, and the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires.

The organization has suffered casualties in areas of armed conflict, including two WCK volunteers on July 2022, one volunteer in Kharkiv in June 2023, and four Ukrainian WCK volunteers on July 2023 in Orikhiv during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and eleven aid workers during the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip--seven in the April 2024 aid convoy attack, three in November 2024 and one in March 2025.

The NGO has contributed to the provision of meals in Australia, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Puerto Rico, Ukraine, the United States, Turkey, Syria, and Palestine. It has also operated culinary training programs in Cambodia, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Zambia and Peru.

In late February 2022, Andrés and World Central Kitchen responded to multiple locations, including in border areas and in conflict zones such as hard-hit Kharkiv, Ukraine, to distribute meals during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. By March 2, 2022, WCK had opened eight kitchens on the Poland–Ukraine border.

A local volunteer was killed in 2023 by a Russian missile strike on his apartment in Kharkiv.

In response to the ongoing humanitarian crisis, World Central Kitchen has been contributing to food deliveries to the Gaza Strip. As of May 2025, it has provided more than 130 million meals.

World Central Kitchen has supplied food to airdrop operations by foreign states, as well as to the NGO Proactiva Open Arms performing maritime deliveries.

On 2 April 2024, WCK announced a pause to operations after Israeli airstrikes killed seven employees (see § Casualties).