Stew, schwarma, and spinach: the first meals Afghan refugees are eating as they land in America
After days of tiring travel, World Central Kitchen is providing newly arrived Afghans with a familiar meal at the airport, hoping to offer a moment of calm before they move on to uncertain futures.
After disembarking a red eye flight at 7 a.m. on August 24, Tim Kilcoyne, director of chef operations at the meal provisions nonprofit, World Central Kitchen, walked into Washington, D.C.’s Dulles Airport to witness Afghan children about the same age as his own son, four or five, “ripping open little bags of chips, and just taking an entire handful and shoveling it in their mouths, because they’re so hungry.”