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Food insecurity is a problem for students in colleges all across the United States, and a recent survey showed that our Marion Campus is no different. In fact, based on the survey's results, 26.7% of students on our campus have struggled at some point with knowing how they were going to afford their next meal. In response to this need, a team of faculty and staff along with the student organization,the Buckeye Food Alliance recently opened a food pantry at The Ohio State University at Marion. Students in need of food can make an appointment on Mondays and two Thursdays of each month to receive healthy, basic food staples.
Our goal with this campaign is to help students succeed in college, and we know that one major component to a student's success is general wellness. If a student no longer has to worry about how he or she will access food, it is our hope, then, that this will remove a barrier to success in school.
Up to this point, the pantry shelves have been stocked solely from food drives, receiving donations from students, staff, faculty and community members. Every dollar you donate will ensure that we can keep the pantry shelves stocked with healthy food options.
Sixteen students in English 3304, Business and Professional Writing are running this campaign as part of their coursework. They are putting their professional writing and marketing skills to use in order to help the campus community.
Please give today! Your monetary donation will directly impact a student's life by removing the burden of hunger and providing a free, healthy and reliable food resource on the Marion campus. Fuel students' bodies so that college can feed their minds!
Our partner Mid-Ohio Foodbank states that each dollar buys an average of four meals. Your donation of only five dollars will help provide twenty meals for students in need.
Giving at this level could provide an average of two weeks of meals for one student in need.
Your donation could provide enough food to feed an apartment of four students for one week.
At this level, you could fill a pantry shelf with 40 cans of chicken, 100 containers of shelf-stable milk or 142 containers of fruit or vegetable juice.
Giving at this level would provide enough for five students to eat three meals per day for 30 days.
Giving this amount would provide enough meals for 10 students to eat three meals per day for 30 days.
Giving at this level would provide enough for twenty students to eat three meals per day for 30 days.
Giving at this level shows that you care to invest in the overall well-being of our students in Marion, Ohio. Supporting the food pantry at this donation level will help create reserves which will ensure the pantry shelves stay fully stocked.
Giving at this level would automatically reach our overall goal, provide students with the assurance of free, healthy food options, and create a comfortable level of reserves to ensure the doors stay open.
