Holiday Buddies benefits Crockett Elementary, an inner-city Phoenix school attended primarily by homeless and refugee children, 100 percent of whom qualify for free and reduced-price meals.
Cierra Chamot organized Cookies ’n’ Cocoa at Rover Elementary, a Title 1 school in Tempe Elementary School District, in memory of her late friend, Heather Began.
8,000 meals in microwaveable containers, prepared by Craft Culinary Concepts at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, were hauled in a semi-trailer to Tempe.