‘Miracle of biblical proportions’: Kanye West and Chick-fil-A help nonprofit provide 300,000 meals amid coronavirus

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Kanye West has teamed up with Chick-fil-A and a Christian nonprofit organization to provide 300,000 meals to people in need in Los Angeles since mid-March.

The Dream Center kicked up efforts to assist local students and families when the school district closed on March 13 due to the coronavirus pandemic. It has since been able to provide about 11,000 meals a day thanks in part to West, companies such as Chick-fil-A, and local businesses in the second-largest school district in the United States.

“Every morning I wake up and stand in the parking lot with our dedicated staff, I am blown away that day after day, week after week, there is enough food to provide to folks that need it,” Matthew Barnett, Dream Center co-founder, said in a statement to Fox News Tuesday.

Barnett described the help from West and businesses to provide food and other essentials as a “miracle of biblical proportions.”

“The Los Angeles Dream Center has transformed into the Grand Central Station of food distribution and other basic essentials. I’m so grateful that our team has stayed healthy, and that we’ve found a safe way to meet the urgent needs within our community. I can’t say thank you enough to the various donors who’ve made this a reality,” he said. “This is what a neighborhood, a community, and a church should always look like.”

West made headlines earlier this month when he teased which presidential candidate he will vote for in November.

“I’m definitely voting this time,” he said in an interview with GQ. “And we know who I’m voting on. And I’m not going to be told by the people around me and the people that have their agenda that my career is going to be over.

“I buy real estate. It’s better now than when Obama was in office,” he added. “They don’t teach you in school about buying property. They teach you how to become somebody’s property. “

The rapper of albums such as The College Dropout and Graduation has been a vocal supporter of President Trump and has often sported a “Make America Great Again” hat.

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