January 25, 2021
Sheldon, Iowa More and more people have been depending upon food banks due to food insecurity in recent months and college students are not immune. Now Northwest Iowa Community College in Sheldon has established a food bank to help their students who are experiencing food insecurity.
NCC’s Thunder Cupboard has been established to help combat that problem. NCC’s Kristi Landis tells us more.
(As above) “Well, basically, the Thunder Cupboard is an initiative that was brought together by a number of employees here at the college, who wanted to make sure that our students are well taken care of. Basically, there are statistics nationwide that show 30% of college students are food insecure and about 1 in 5 college students are actually considered hungry. We want to make sure that there is nothing that would impair a student at Northwest Iowa Community College from being successful at their studies.”
SHELDON, Iowa (KTIV) - No college student should ever have to choose between their education or food, but for some students that is not an option. We didn t want that to be the case here at Northwest Iowa Community College. So we had a group of employees that decided to come together and figure out a way that we could easily give some accessible non-perishable food to some of our students at a moment s notice, said Director of College Advancement Kristi Landis.
So they created the Thunder Cupboard, named after their mascot Thunder the mountain lion.
The efforts began last June, right when then the COVID-19 pandemic was first sweeping the nation.