CUNY Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez and Macaulay College students Council President Shania Persaud open the meals pantry.
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The Metropolis School of New York launched the first Mountain Lion Meals Pantry at Macaulay Honors College to cope with meals insecurity amongst college school college students.
This meals pantry, which is part of a group of over 20 meals pantries all through CUNY campuses, objectives to supply school college students with vital meals and gives with out cost.
School college students obtained’t should skip meals as a result of humanitarian efforts of the Girls at Amazon, an employee-led affinity group of girls and non-binary employees at Amazon and Amazon Internet Corporations.
Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, chancellor of CUNY, and Dara N. Byrne, Macaulay Honors College dean, celebrated with a spot ceremony on Jan. 31.
“CUNY is always working to tear down any roadblocks that may prevent a student from focusing on their success,” Chancellor Matos Rodríguez talked about. “While we would love to be in a world where there would be no need for a food pantry, we know how impactful these spaces can be in addressing a breadth of needs a student may have.”
According to Dean Byrne, the pantry is about additional than merely offering meals to school college students.
“We opened the Mountain Lion Food Pantry not just to provide food, but to offer dignity, support, and a reminder that no one here is alone,” Byrna talked about. “This pantry is more than just a resource; it is a promise. A promise that no student should have to choose between coming to Macaulay and buying a meal. A promise that within our college community, we take care of one another.”
According to a 2022 survey carried out by CUNY’s Healthful CUNY initiative, roughly 40% of CUNY school college students—about 110,000 folks—reported having “low” or “very low” meals security, underscoring the important need for sources identical to the Mountain Lion Meals Pantry.
Any CUNY scholar, irrespective of the place they attend college, can go to any of the meals pantries all through the faculty system to entry meals.
Shania Persaud, president of the Macaulay College students Council and a senior at Baruch College, talked about meals insecurity is a widespread topic at CUNY, making this a properly timed program.
“I remember when I spoke to students last year after a career fair, where some had traveled from the other boroughs, and I could not direct them to food in the building. I love that now I can tell them, ‘Hey, come downstairs, there’s so much food,’” Persaud talked about.
The pantry provides a variety of issues, along with non-perishable meals, cooking substances, properly being and wellness gives, pet gives, and residential objects; they operate on CUNY campuses operate year-round, along with all through the summer season season.
The Mountain Lion Meals Pantry is open all through widespread setting up hours, from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. on weekdays, and from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. on weekends.
School college students can uncover additional particulars about CUNY and its initiatives on-line at cuny.edu.
