Dublin Rotary Donates $5400 to Help Those in Need this Holiday Season

Information from the Dublin Rotary–

This year the Rotary Club of Dublin donated a total of $5,400 to worthy causes and families in need in the Dublin Area.

Working with the Dublin School District, CityServe and the Children's Emergency Food Bank, the Dublin Rotarians identified and adopted 29 families in need for the holidays. Twenty of those families were from Valley High School. The Rotary Club of Dublin was able to donate $100 Safeway gift certificates to 12 Valley High families. Another 8 families were adopted for the entire holiday season.

Along with the Safeway gift certificates, presents were purchased and wrapped for each family member. Additionally, $50 Safeway gift certificates were donated to the families of 9 elementary and middle school students in the school district.  Each family also received two bags of groceries from the Children's Emergency Food Bank of Dublin.  All totaled, Rotarians allocated $4,200 to those families helping to make their holidays a little more special.

"Foremost in our effort was the club member's desire to make a positive difference in the lives of Dublin families," said club president, Janine Thalblum. "We wanted to help the families of children in the Dublin School District who are going through hard times. The holidays can be difficult when you can't even put food on the table or have a warm jacket to wear to school."

Additionally, Dublin Rotary allocated $500 to the Calico of Alameda County, $500 to the Tri-Valley Open Heart Kitchen and $300 to the Dublin High School Interact Club who is working on a project to send solar ovens to families in need in Afghanistan.  Calico is the only agency in Alameda County working with children who have physically or sexually abused while the Open Heart Kitchen serves food 7 days a week to hungry families in the Tri-Valley Area.