The UTRGV Food Pantry amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, will continue their service on providing aid for students who experience food insecurities. For students, the pantry offers a grocery list from the foods available to choose from for a whole week’s worth.
Student Food Pantry Coordinator and Social Work Senior, Jacquelyn Herrera says the purpose of the food pantry is to make sure no student goes hungry.
The purpose of the food pantry is to help out students and make sure no student goes hungry, to you know ensure that every student has groceries for a whole week.
Herrera says the typical foods a student can find there are water, orange juice, chicken, eggs, different kinds of fruit as well as vegetables.
The food pantry receives many of the food it provides from a Food Bank in Pharr, and from donations from the community. History Sophomore, Carlos Aguirre says students with low income are able to take advantage of this service.
So many students are taking advantage of the place, not all of us have high income and we do not have the opportunity to buy groceries, and the food pantry helps the students get some food…
Herrera says that the food pantry in Brownsville serves from sixty to eighty students per week and is now working on moving the grocery list online. That way students can pick up their food once a week while keeping a healthy social distance.
Biology Senior, Alfredo Macias says he thinks the food pantry should be promoted more with students.
So I think it should be a good idea you know to just promote it with other students, or you know just a way they know where to go or what they have to do in order to get obtain some food…
The food pantry is located at, Cavalry Hall room 101 and 102 on the Brownsville campus and at the Edinburg Campus at the University Center in room 114. For more information on the Food Pantry in the Brownsville campus call 956-882-7126.
Reporter Victor Rivero
