Feeding PVCC Families

The food pantry at PVCC has recently been putting a large effort into feeding and helping members of the school community, staff and students alike. This past Halloween, Coordinator of the Student Financial Resource Center, Amanda Key, and members of the food pantry at PVCC handed out bags of food and supplies to students and staff in need for the Fill a Bag, Feed a Family event. Now she is looking forward to helping students in need during the Boxes for Break event happening in December.

Boxes for Break will be held on Dec. 14 from 4-6 p.m., right before students are released for winter break. The boxes are created by students for students and will contain a cookbook created by work study students that uses ingredients included in the box. The boxes will contain enough food for the break.

Key is happy to help and is looking to assist all the students that she can. She encourages any students in need to visit her in the Financial Resource Center room M103.  “We want to educate them [students] on the resources that they are eligible for,” said Key. “Most of our students are eligible for things like Medicaid, and they don’t know that. I want to get them in the door so I can get them those benefits, and I can help them apply for all that.” Key can help students with applying for Medicaid, SNAP, and other federal and state resources.  

Students interested in receiving a box should sign up as soon as possible. Registration is being held from Nov. 21 to Dec. 5 online, and there are 175 boxes available to be claimed. 

For those looking for financial assistance, Key can be contacted by email or in the Financial Resource Center that is directly to the right of the PVCC Panther Pantry (M104). The food pantry is open Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.. Any student can receive goods through the PVCC Panther Pantry. Students interested in receiving food from the pantry should remember to bring their school ID or be able to access their ID number. It will be needed for receiving food.