Dylan Dugas

MARCH 2020 This was the activation that started my relationship with WCK. It was early March 2020, right at the beginning of COVID. I got a call from a producer offering me a job driving a box truck up the California coast, hauling supplies from Southern California to Oakland. I initially said no—I didn’t want the job—but he pushed, and I agreed, assuming it was some kind of production. About halfway up the coast, the person I believed was producing the project called me. He

AUGUST 2021 Following the 2021 earthquake, WCK set up two kitchens on the island—one in Les Cayes and another in Jeremie. We also established an outpost in the capital, Port-au-Prince, at the airport. That’s where I was stationed. My job was to buy as much food as possible and fly it to the other cities. With roads and bridges destroyed, overland transport was impossible. One of our board members lives in Haiti on a secured compound, so accommodations were safe—though the cit

JANUARY 6 2021 It quickly became apparent that I would be wherever the news was. This was solidified on January 6, 2021. I happen to be...

2022 The day after the start of the Ukraine war, we started serving meals to the refugees coming across the border into Poland. We...

2023 When I woke up on February 6, 2023 and reached over to grab my phone and saw the New York Times breaking news notification outlining...

JULY 2023 Occasionally, we will deploy to a disaster, and then the disaster will be managed within a couple of days. This is the cost of...

AUGUST 2023 One day after I got home from Greece I left for Hawaii. The wildfire in Maui ripped through a small coastal town called...

OCTOBER 2023 The earthquake in Morocco happened while we were in Hawaii, so another team went to Morocco initially, and then after we...

2023 - 2024 And it was while we were in Morocco that Hamas attacked Israel. We were unsure at first how we were going to respond. At this...

MARCH 2024 Moving trucks into Gaza was not allowing us to get as much aid in as was needed, so we sought alternate routes. This led me to...

Before describing Phase II, I want to take a moment to talk about counting pallets. Counting pallets is an art, not a science. It may seem like a simple thing to count pallets. I can assure you it is not. It is one of the hardest things in this life. This was certainly made more difficult due to the fact that we were building a digital tool as we were using it, but at some point you still need to physically count pallets and it seems impossible. Many late nights were spent wa

JUNE-AUGUST 2024 I returned to Cyprus. The goal was to move the pallets to Gaza that we had placed in storage in Larnaca and Limassol after the April 1 attack. I thought this would take about two weeks—simply sending the pallets on standard freight to Israel and then into Gaza. I was wrong. I ended up staying in Cyprus for nearly two months. By the time I returned, the situation had changed. The U.S. Army had begun operating a floating pier in Gaza, working out of the same Cy

OCTOBER 2024 After the intensity of Cyprus, the work stateside felt manageable by comparison. When a hurricane struck Florida, setting up...

DECEMBER 2024 - MARCH 2025 In December I learned of two French territories off Madagascar—Réunion to the east, Mayotte to the west. A...