by Doug Donahoo

The lights pop on to reveal a brand-new kitchen. A fourburner gas stove. A flat-top griddle still cool to the touch. A refrigerator hums quietly in the corner. Cupboard doors cover every available inch of wall space. It could be a classic diner kitchen set-up, if your classic diner included a 7.3 liter, V8 engine making 325 horsepower.

FedEx made one of its most important deliveries to date, dropping off the keys to the newest addition to the Kansas and Western Missouri Division (KWM) emergency disaster services (EDS) fleet earlier this year. A full, mobile kitchen unit as part of the FedEx Delivering for Good program.

The new canteen is the 22nd vehicle FedEx has donated to Salvation Army locations around the globe including Chicago, Winnipeg and Mumbai.

“The donation of this canteen truck is part of the FedEx Delivering for Good program. In 2019, FedEx announced our FedEx Cares goal: to positively impact 50 million lives by our 50th birthday on April 17 of this year,” said Melissa Clark, FedEx’s representative at the ribbon cutting. “It’s only by teaming up with great organizations like The Salvation Army that we will meet that goal.”

The fully-loaded kitchen will give the EDS team and volunteers new options when providing services after a disaster strikes in the region. Crews can drive the unit directly to affected neighborhoods and provide freshly cooked, hot meals to families whether at the scene of clean-up or a temporary shelter.

The kitchen can churn out 1,500 meals daily, providing breakfast, lunch and dinner with restocking throughout out the day, while volunteers can hand out cold drinks from the refrigerator unit.

Just like FedEx can deliver hundreds of thousands of packages around the globe every single day,
this new unit will help The Salvation Army in Kansas and Western Missouri deliver hope to residents when a disaster strikes.

“We’re so grateful to the work FedEx does to help us serve the needs of those in disasters,” said Major Jesse Collins, KWM divisional leader for officer development.

 

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