{"id":842,"date":"2018-12-19T21:58:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T21:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/?p=842"},"modified":"2018-12-20T06:18:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T06:18:56","slug":"brookdale-campus-delivers-a-new-food-pantry-the-purple-apron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/2018\/12\/brookdale-campus-delivers-a-new-food-pantry-the-purple-apron\/","title":{"rendered":"Brookdale Campus delivers a new food pantry: The Purple Apron"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A photo taken outside the Purple Apron office, detailing their process.<\/figcaption> Photo by Maria Andrea Luna<\/span><\/figure>\n

A food pantry called The Purple Apron is offering free groceries to Hunter students for the rest of the school year.<\/p>\n

Every Saturday until summer 2019, the pantry, located at the Brookdale Campus at 425 E. 25th St., will be giving away a shopping bag worth of food items, including grains, canned fruits and vegetables, dairy and protein. On a typical week the pantry, which opened at the started at the month, serves almost 100 students.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that nutritious food is a key ingredient to student success, health and happiness \u2013 that\u2019s why Hunter has long offered emergency food assistance to students,\u201d said a college spokesperson. \u201cThanks to a generous grant, this new initiative \u2013 organized out of the Dean of Students office \u2013 will build on those efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Students Affairs manager Chris Aviles, The Purple Apron is a new addition to a list of services Hunter provides for students in need. Under the program of Emergency Funding, the food pantry is an effort to properly support students during a time where food insecurity is becoming a growing concern in college campuses.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s really great, especially since we\u2019re college students and it can be hard to eat healthy,\u201d said Rachel Philip, a freshman. \u201cI think it\u2019s a really nice service that they\u2019re offering, and not just to Brookdale students but to the entire Hunter community.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a study conducted between March and May 2016 by the College and University Food Bank Alliance and several other organizations that address student hunger, \u201c48 percent of respondents reported food insecurity in the previous 30 days, including 22 percent with very low levels of food security that qualify them as hungry.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like it\u2019ll help a lot,\u201d said Matthew Carbonell, a senior. \u201cI feel like there should be a way that you could tell if you\u2019re low income or not and maybe get a bigger cut of the share.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Purple Apron is located in an inconspicuous room on the first floor of Brookdale. When you enter the room, you are asked for your ID and given a large brown paper bag. A student is allowed to take two items from each food group \u2013 protein, vegetable, fruit, grains — and one item from the dairy section. Recent offerings included milk, beans and pasta.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was good, it was quick, they were nice,\u201d said Jonah Sanpedro, a junior. \u201cI would say it was an open and inviting space.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs an academic institution we have to be conscious of all the different aspects that our students need in order for them to excel academically and be able to do those exams, do well in their classes and hopefully graduate and move on to better things,\u201d said Aviles.<\/p>\n

Antony Simos, a freshman, collected his share and was prepared to cook in the campus\u2019 shared kitchen.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt helps out, for time, instead of having to go to the supermarket. If I need pasta then it\u2019s right there,\u201d Simos said. \u201cFor healthy foods also, I got some vegetables, so that\u2019s filling. We\u2019re student-athletes also so it really helps out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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