Each year, Cupertino Rotary partners with Cupertino Safeway to provide over 100 pre-prepared Thanksgiving meals, which our members deliver Thanksgiving morning to recipient families that have been pre-selected by local community-based organizations as families that can definitely use this help.
Thanksgiving morning, Rotarians gather at the Safeway parking lot (De Anza and Homestead) at 8:30 am. Volunteers check in and are given the contact information with a map showing the directions to the house(s) of their recipient(s).
Shortly after 8:30 am, Safeway staff wheel out the prepared, pre-cooked meals. Each meal serves 6 to 8 people. Our Interact Club members and Boy Scouts from Troop 479 then assist in carrying the meals to the cars of the volunteers delivering them.
The volunteers deliver the meals between 9:30 am and 10:30 am and then return home to enjoy Thanksgiving with their families.
Last year, just over 60 Cupertino Rotarians volunteered to deliver meals Thanksgiving morning. This year looks to be even bigger!
