Local restaurant owner donates meals for Ukrainian refugees

Mike Strauss owns Mike’s BBQ in South Philadelphia.

On Friday, throughout a break, Strauss carried out a Zoom interview with Motion Information from the World Central Kitchen Commissary in Poland, proper on the Ukrainian border.

When he noticed individuals fleeing for his or her security, Strauss hopped on a airplane from Philadelphia on Monday to assist.

“It is a bizarre feeling,” Strauss mentioned. “It is a good feeling with the ability to feed them, nevertheless it’s a really unhappy feeling understanding what they are going by and that they should be fed within the first place. It is heartbreaking.”

World Central Kitchen is serving up greater than 100,000 meals a day, cooking huge quantities of meals, like stews, for individuals in want of heat and sustenance.

“There are cooks from all all over the world, from the U.S., from France, from Mexico,” Strauss added. “That is the superb half. All of those individuals are coming collectively so shortly to assist individuals which might be in want.”

Strauss says one thing so simple as a heat cup of cocoa is bringing smiles to the faces of the individuals who have left every little thing behind.

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