The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/food-insecurity/page/2/)
Anabel’s Grocery — a student-run market founded to address food insecurity on Cornell’s campus — is set to reopen this fall after having spent the past semester trying to “reflect and reassess” the business’ operations.
With the semester coming to an end with four more weeks of school left, I took a peek at how many BRBs I had left. Opening the GET app has always been a moment of tension and anticipation. BRBs, despite being just regular money labeled in special Cornell jargon, represent my special Martha’s Cafe salad money, my midday hazelnut latte money and my Chobani mango yogurt money. BRBs are special and are my resource for funding my meals on a daily basis. With the lack of dining halls accepting meal swipes, the amount of BRBs I have determines the fate of my next meals.
Under a new initiative intended to help combat food insecurity, students had the opportunity to donate “bonus” meals they have on their meal plan, which range from 4 to 8 depending on the specific plan.
Anabel’s Grocery, first opened in May 2017, will be closing its doors temporarily to attempt to address issues dealing with the store’s longevity.
Despite campus food insecurity, cafe food is regularly tossed — not donated.
In 2016, two Cornell students founded a library to help out their peers who could not afford to buy textbooks. During the spring and fall semesters of 2018, the library rented out approximately 840 books and 100 iClickers.
Bread N Butter, a food pantry founded and run by a graduate student, has been tackling the issue of food insecurity since September by providing free cooked meals to the campus community.
“Knowing that you are helping a family in need for Thanksgiving is what drives most people to donate,” a club organizer said.
Satori Salon and Malcolm Thomas worked together to organize Food for the Soul, a fundraiser for the Food Bank of Southern Tier, to help fight food insecurity in Tompkins County.
Dejah Powell ’18 received $5,000 in funding last spring, which will allow her to improve a school garden in Chicago.