By Capri Gahr
Student Reporter
A food pantry will be opening up on campus.
The Campus Cabinet will open for students that need assistance financially so that food will be available to them. The cabinet will be in Shockley Hall 108.
“We have a room, we have the shelves, we just do not have any food yet.” said Angela Case, the person who is spearheading this project.
She went on to explain how the cabinet will be financed, “we have an account within the foundation that accepts donations,” she said.
According to case, donations will be the first step to advancing the Campus Cabinet. With the donations, they plan to purchase food that is dorm friendly. They will not accept donations of food that are perishable, refrigerated or frozen.
To get monetary donations, Case plans on presenting the idea to people on campus and local businesses while also trying to drum up donations from larger, food-related businesses.
Online, if you visit the foundations webpage, you can submit a monetary donation and specify that you want it to go to the Campus Cabinet.
Case explained the idea behind the cabinet as a way for students who may be struggling with finances or lack the ability of coming up with healthy foods that they can make in their dorms.
Case explained her desire to have every organization and club on campus help with this project. To help, students can volunteer, raise money or organize food drives with their clubs.
If the project receives the funds they need, they will apply to work with the regional food bank. This depends on the need of the students and many other factors.
The cabinet will also accept donations of hygiene products and hopefully collect any other form of products that would be beneficial to students.
Currently, there are already a couple donation boxes, or blessing boxes, that are located in town that people can put donations in or take products donated for their own needs.
Case has also provided a sheet online that lists all the free meals offered to students every week by the surrounding churches, the locations of the blessing boxes and the information about the Campus Cabinet. If you visit nwosu.edu/campus-cabinet you can find all this information.
As of now, the project does not yet have an opening date, they haven’t decided the days they will operate but they are working on setting those up.
The Campus Cabinet is not only open to students in the dorms, but to all students on campus, and even faculty who may need assistance.
Case explained, “there is a lot of work to be done,” before this project is operational.