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World Central Kitchen, a relief organization that provides meals after humanitarian crises and weather disasters, said Tuesday it had served more than 64,000 meals after Helene.

According to an email from World Central Kitchen, 35 food trucks are in operation and the group is setting up field kitchens in Asheville, North Carolina, and Clearwater, Florida. Thirty-two of the trucks are located in Georgia and Florida, where more than 41,000 meals and 2,600 sandwiches were served.

“These moments are hard for everyone, but I believe that every day gets better, every day a little better than yesterday,” Jose Andres, founder of World Central Kitchen, told CNN's Anderson Cooper from Asheville on Monday night. “This (effort) is enormous. We drive to places that take us four, five and six hours by car. We use helicopters because we can get there in 10 to 20 minutes.”

According to the email, the organization works with 16 restaurant partners in North Carolina and Tennessee. More than 23,000 meals were served in Tennessee and North Carolina.

“Once our kitchens come online, we will expand hot meal distribution shortly,” World Central Kitchen said in its email.

Andres said relief efforts at the Asheville airport, which include the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Guard, “is something I've honestly never seen” in the 15 years he's led the organization.

According to World Central Kitchen, five 6,200-gallon water tankers were sent to western North Carolina because of shortages caused by infrastructure damage.

Arthur Blank, owner of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons and Major League Soccer's Atlanta United, recently donated $2 million to the organization.