Mercy Chefs Provides Food to Survivors of Hurricane Helene

ASHEVILLE, N.C. – As people work to pick up the pieces following devastating flooding and mudslides, Mercy Chefs is working to provide comfort in the form of a hot meal.

In Asheville, Mercy Chefs is stationed at Mission Hospital, which serves as a distribution hub. The team is feeding hospital personnel and the families of patients at the site, and is working to feed the broader community through deliveries.

Though Mercy Chefs meals are made for the masses, our chefs’ primary focus is on quality and comfort, as we are serving these meals in times of tragedy and crisis. We aim to bring hope to people in the form of a hot meal.

During deployments, we dedicate a team of chefs and volunteers to making homemade desserts. They spend their days baking cookies, cakes, muffins, and more. Our hope is that when a person receives a Mercy Chefs meal and opens the clamshell, they experience a moment of joy on what could be one of their hardest days.

If you’d like to continue to support Mercy Chefs as we continue to feed body and soul around the country and around the world, click here.

ABOUT MERCY CHEFS  

Mercy Chefs is a 501c3 founded in 2006 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The organization exists to provide professionally prepared, restaurant-quality meals to victims, volunteers and first responders in natural disasters and national emergencies and partners with existing ministries with food service in underserved communities around the country. Since its founding, Mercy Chefs has served over 27 million meals. In 2020, Mercy Chefs founder Gary LeBlanc was recognized by Southern Living Magazine as a “Hometown Hero,” and Mercy Chefs was named the 2020 Small Business of the Year in the nonprofit category by Inside Business and the Hampton Roads Chamber. In 2015, it received both the Virginia Governor’s Volunteerism Award and the Hampton Roads Volunteer Achievement Award for its service. For more information, visit MercyChefs.com