WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:270000 00:00:05.171 --> 00:00:06.373 Here you go, my dear. 00:00:06.373 --> 00:00:07.307 Thank you. 00:00:07.674 --> 00:00:10.310 It’s too bad it takes a crisis to really elevate 00:00:10.310 --> 00:00:12.712 the heroic work of school nutrition professionals. 00:00:13.813 --> 00:00:15.315 These frontline workers 00:00:15.315 --> 00:00:18.985 in our nation’s schools are superheroes. 00:00:18.985 --> 00:00:20.253 They bring a smile. 00:00:20.253 --> 00:00:21.221 They bring a heart. 00:00:21.221 --> 00:00:22.222 They bring hope. 00:00:22.756 --> 00:00:25.058 They stepped up and became first responders, 00:00:25.058 --> 00:00:27.861 and said, ‘we’ll stay, and make sure people have food.’ 00:00:33.366 --> 00:00:36.736 I’m very worried that we are not really 00:00:36.736 --> 00:00:39.672 recognizing the humanitarian crisis. 00:00:40.006 --> 00:00:43.576 We expect the need in schools to double 00:00:43.576 --> 00:00:46.346 if not triple in the next two to three months. 00:00:46.713 --> 00:00:50.583 It’s not just the 30 million kids who rely on school meals daily. 00:00:51.117 --> 00:00:52.819 People started coming to these sites saying, 00:00:52.819 --> 00:00:54.320 ‘Can we please have food?’ 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:56.322 And instantly the districts all said, 00:00:56.322 --> 00:00:59.526 ‘Of course, we are part of this community. We’re going to feed you.’ 00:01:03.296 --> 00:01:04.864 With The Rockefeller Foundation, 00:01:04.864 --> 00:01:06.900 we’re providing the resources and equipment 00:01:06.900 --> 00:01:11.137 to deliver vital meals to kids and families in need. 00:01:11.871 --> 00:01:14.641 In the urban environments what they’re figuring out is, 00:01:14.641 --> 00:01:18.711 how do we take an unprecedented degree of need 00:01:18.711 --> 00:01:22.148 and beef up more school feeding sites? 00:01:22.148 --> 00:01:24.417 In rural and suburban markets, 00:01:24.417 --> 00:01:27.253 the issue is the delivery of those meals. 00:01:27.520 --> 00:01:30.790 And so that is where we are seeing school bus drivers, 00:01:31.057 --> 00:01:36.496 volunteers, who can then go deliver the meals to kids in communities. 00:01:39.732 --> 00:01:43.603 Right now we’re feeding about 1.2 million meals a day, 00:01:43.603 --> 00:01:46.606 average, over the 12 large districts that we represent. 00:01:47.140 --> 00:01:49.509 The grant that The Rockefeller Foundation has given us 00:01:49.509 --> 00:01:52.378 is for the Dallas Independent Public School District. 00:01:52.378 --> 00:01:56.015 About 600,000 meals are going out the door. 00:01:56.249 --> 00:02:00.053 The Foundation’s contribution to this fund right now will cover 00:02:00.053 --> 00:02:02.689 all those costs that don’t get reimbursed. 00:02:02.689 --> 00:02:05.225 So all the adult meals, home delivering 00:02:05.225 --> 00:02:08.328 to medically fragile children, to homeless children. 00:02:08.328 --> 00:02:11.464 Procuring personal protection equipment for employees. 00:02:16.169 --> 00:02:19.939 World Central Kitchen, we bring hope one plate of food at a time. 00:02:19.939 --> 00:02:22.509 We are using the kitchens that are closed 00:02:22.509 --> 00:02:26.412 to provide emergency relief in many communities across America. 00:02:26.880 --> 00:02:29.782 Rockefeller is helping us right now in Augusta, Georgia, 00:02:29.782 --> 00:02:30.950 and Newport News. 00:02:30.950 --> 00:02:34.521 We are doing more than 50,000 meals a week in those locations. 00:02:34.954 --> 00:02:35.955 Nice to meet you, Penny. 00:02:36.122 --> 00:02:37.123 Thank you. 00:02:37.590 --> 00:02:40.293 The message we are sharing about what's happening 00:02:40.293 --> 00:02:44.264 with kids in school buildings, food insecurity as a whole, 00:02:44.264 --> 00:02:47.567 needs to be heard by every American. 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:50.203 I hope out of this everybody’s going to learn, 00:02:50.203 --> 00:02:55.108 the schools that are so important for the education of our children, 00:02:55.108 --> 00:03:00.580 also become very important rapid response emergency centers 00:03:00.580 --> 00:03:03.983 where communities come together, where families come together. 00:03:04.651 --> 00:03:07.153 The thing that gives me the greatest amount of hope 00:03:07.153 --> 00:03:10.723 is the sheer degrees of acts of kindness, 00:03:10.723 --> 00:03:12.792 the humanity I have seen. 00:03:12.792 --> 00:03:15.995 When I see our frontline workers in school buildings, 00:03:15.995 --> 00:03:18.364 who is giving you a little extra that one day 00:03:18.364 --> 00:03:20.466 or who doesn’t turn away a family. 00:03:20.466 --> 00:03:23.570 I just see glimmers of belief and faith 00:03:23.570 --> 00:03:26.206 and trust that we will get through this together.