TO HIGH INFLATION AND RENT, SOME STUDENTS HAVE HAD TO ON TWO TO MAKE MEET.

“Food insecurity can be… I have nothing to eat at all ever…(or) also be,’I don’t have time to…grab something nourishing to eat, I just have to eat fast food or I can only eat stuff on the meal plan,” Matthew Braganza, senior accounting major at CWU, as well as a lead officer for the Wildcat Pantry says. Wildcat Pantry aims to make students comfortable with taking resources available to them.

“A big focus of pushing the Wildcat pantry as a whole is destigmatizing the use of the Pantry,” Braganza says. “You’re a student, and sometimes we all fall on hard times, sometimes you don’t have the time to… get something to cook all the time, you don’t have time to go get groceries…even some students…have never bought groceries for themselves when they first come on campus.” Braganza encourages students to take advantage of what resources like Wildcat Pantry has to offer.

“If you’re reading this…I would say, tell your friends about it. You never know who needs those kinds of resources… even if you don’t use it yourself…you may know somebody who does need it and just doesn’t know how to speak up and talk about it,” Braganza says.

Lily De Young

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