AZ group helps families get ready for Thanksgiving

The Phoenix Rescue Mission is helping provide Thanksgiving dinner for families in need. Starting today, they're handing out free turkeys and sides in Glendale. Irene Snyder is at the kickoff distribution. It's hard to believe, but we were already talking about Thanksgiving meals and here the Phoenix Rescue Mission is giving out so many meals to people who need them this holiday season. We have Kyla here today to tell us more about it. So first of all, let's look through some of the items that we have. You have a whole bunch of items here for that Thanksgiving meal. Yes, for the next two weeks, we will be handing out all the meal ingredients for a full Thanksgiving meal for a family along with their traditional things we get at Hope for Hunger. So we have the frozen turkey, the stuffing, there's cranberry sauce in here, the potatoes, mac and cheese. Mac and cheese, corn, all of the things, green beans, just to make up that traditional Thanksgiving meal. And then we have so many people who are driving in here today to get it loaded up by volunteers. Who are these volunteers from? Yes, this is completely run by volunteers Monday through Friday, 8 to 12. And they come from all over the community. We have groups join us, individuals who are here five days a week sometimes who just love it, love the heart of it and want to serve their local community. What is it like stocking up for something like this? You rely heavily on donations, right? Absolutely. We started planning for this prior to summer and have been calling on our local community. Community members, churches, corporations, foundations, individuals. It takes a whole community to be able to feed 3,000 families this Thanksgiving season. 3,000 families. That's incredible. And what does it mean to you when you see all these people roll up and say, hey, here's a meal for you for free? It saves them something for the holiday season because it's expensive. Yes, absolutely. Our whole goal is just to bring dignity and value to these families and for them to be able to make that meal together and sit around the table. It makes my heart so happy to see everyone rolling in and prepping for the season. Thank you so much for your time. And if people want to donate, obviously this is for Thanksgiving, say for Christmas, anything moving forward, how can they do that? Yeah, you can go online to phxmission.org and everything you will need will be right on there. Thank you so much for your time today. We really appreciate it. We will send it back to you guys.