CHANDLER — The Chandler CARE Center is packing Thanksgiving food boxes for 384 local families this year, and it still needs a few items, ABC15 reported.
The center has distributed meals through its Thanksgiving Family Assistance Day for more than 15 years. On Friday, students from Chandler High School and ACP Middle School sorted donations and checked expiration dates.
“The ability to provide that food for them that they can take home, they can prepare with their family, they can sit around and have a meal together… I think it is just such a heartwarming thing to be able to do,” center director Katie Kahle said.
Payton Ackert, a senior in Chandler High’s IB program, helped as part of the annual IB Day of Service. “It just means a lot to me to be able to feed these people,” he said.
The center is still short on rice and beans, gravy, cake mix and frosting, and is accepting donations through the end of next week.
Sources: ABC15. Thee Arizona Times uses AI-assisted reporting reviewed against the sources listed.
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