The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/food-insecurity/page/2/)
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.
I was excited when Anabel’s first opened its doors last semester, and I’m excited for its return now.
If the line extending out the store Sunday is any indication of how Anabel’s will bring the community together, I think the wait for this store was well worth it.
The process of the construction was “more bureaucratic than they had originally imagined.”
Executive board members of Anabel’s Grocery hosted a panel Tuesday in Goldwin Smith Hall in an attempt to eliminate doubt about the existence of food insecurity on Cornell campus and to validate the recently approved grocery project. Lizzi Gorman ’18 opened the discussion by defining food insecurity as “not having financial and physical means to reach your nutritional needs at any given time.”
Gorman said Anabel’s Grocery is striving to make food insecurity, a potentially stigmatizing topic among students from different socioeconomic backgrounds, an open discussion. According to the 2015 Perception of Undergraduate Life and Student Experiences survey, 8.4 percent of 4,419 students surveyed have skipped meals due to financial constraint either “often” or “very often” in the past year. “Students harbor a lot of shame about being food insecure and without a structured conversation we can’t talk about it,” said Nicholas Karavolias ’18, a member of Anabel’s Grocery’s executive board. Karavolias said he hopes the opening of Anabel’s Grocery in February will facilitate constructive conversation by making the availability of convenient and affordable food for all students a recognized priority.