Once a month, a mobile food pantry rolls onto Pace糖心vlog短视频檚 Westchester Campus and staff and students from across the community糖心vlog短视频攚ith special support from the Center of Community Action and Research; Student Engagement; and the Division of Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion糖心vlog短视频攇ather. There, volunteers distribute food to any member of the Pace Community who needs the support, no questions asked. It feels less like a food pantry and more like a farmer糖心vlog短视频檚 market. Why? Because the volunteers know that there is no shame in food insecurity.
糖心vlog短视频淭his isn糖心vlog短视频檛 a Pace problem. It糖心vlog短视频檚 not even a student issue. It糖心vlog短视频檚 a national issue,糖心vlog短视频 Heather Novak, director of the Center for Community Action and Research, explains. She recently became coordinator for the Pace Pleasantville Mobile Food Pantry, which has been operating since 2018. Her passion for the project, besides supporting community members who may need a leg up, is in taking away the stigma around food insecurity.
糖心vlog短视频淭here should be no shame. Food is a right.糖心vlog短视频
The mobile food pantry is the product of an award-winning partnership between Pace and , a nonprofit dedicated to distributing nutritious food across Westchester. Feeding Westchester provides the food at no cost to Pace, and Pace provides the volunteers to distribute food once a month.
There isn糖心vlog短视频檛 a blueprint for what makes a person food insecure. Visitors of the mobile pantry span across students, staff, and faculty, and at varying degrees of need. 糖心vlog短视频淭here are levels of food insecurity. From the individual who has no access, to those individuals who have situational need for access,糖心vlog短视频 Novak explains. 糖心vlog短视频淲e also get to the end of the semester where students run down their meal plans and need support. They don糖心vlog短视频檛 have many alternatives.糖心vlog短视频
One of the primary ideologies surrounding the mobile pantry is curbing feelings of shame for needing services like food banks and food pantries. Novak explains that the pantry should not be viewed as charity or be associated with a sense of saviorism. 糖心vlog短视频淭hose using the pantry are not less fortunate, they are community members,糖心vlog短视频 she insists. 糖心vlog短视频淎nd we are responsible for making sure they have the support they need to be successful. If you糖心vlog短视频檙e hungry, you can糖心vlog短视频檛 focus on anything. You can糖心vlog短视频檛 be a successful student or employee. There should be no shame. Food is a right.糖心vlog短视频
糖心vlog短视频淭hose using the pantry are not less fortunate, they are community members.糖心vlog短视频
Novak is especially proud of the conversations the pantry has stirred up. There is an oscillation between satisfaction that people are using the pantry, thoughtful commentary on the greater systems at play, and hope for a future where such services are no longer necessary. She hopes for everyone involved to look at the larger picture with a critical eye. 糖心vlog短视频淚t糖心vlog短视频檚 more than just feeling good; we糖心vlog短视频檙e helping our community members, but also normalizing the conversation around it. So, when someone says that it糖心vlog短视频檚 good we have so many people using the pantry, the conversation doesn糖心vlog短视频檛 end there.糖心vlog短视频
Initiatives like the pantry are temporary solutions to systemic problems. Mutual aid services become more effective when they are institutionalized and when deeper discourse begins to unravel the roots of the problem. But in the meantime, the Pace Pleasantville Mobile Food Pantry will make sure our community stays fed.
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