From Staff Reporters
Northwestern’s Campus Cabinet food pantry received a $3,000 grant to help provide food and other supplies for Rangers in need.
The Swipe Out Hunger nationwide nonprofit gave the grant.
“I’m so excited to know that we have organizations like Swipe Out Hunger, who are there to help our students and employees with food insecurity,” Angelia Case, who helps oversee the pantry and applied for the grant, said in a Jan. 27 news release. “The increase in demand for our services at the campus pantry rose quite a bit during the fall semester, and it continues to increase this spring semester. This week, we had 17 clients submit a food request, which is the most we’ve had in one week since we opened in 2019. It doesn’t take long to deplete the food on the shelves with that many clients in one week, so every food or monetary donation we receive continues to help us purchase items for those who need them.
“Our mission at the campus pantry is to ‘provide supplemental food and other basic necessities to alleviate food insecurity and barriers to student and employee success.’ So, we are trying to do what we can to help our students and employees who need it.
“Asking for help can be hard, so we try to tell our clients to let us help them now so that when they are able, they can pay it forward to someone else.”
Students, faculty and staff who need to visit the food pantry can schedule an appointment by visiting https://www.nwosu.edu/campus-cabinet.
Nearly half of all Northwestern students are low-income or first-generation students, Case said. Clients have received about 13,000 pounds of food since the cabinet opened in 2019.
“When you come from a place where something such as this pantry would have been a great benefit to you, you tend to believe in the goals and mission just a little bit more,” Case said in the news release. “We just want to help.”
For more information, contact Case by emailing arcase@nwosu.edu or calling 580-327-8577.