'Starving Students': Struggling college students turn to food banks

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25851896/

Struggling college students turn to food banks
Facebook, online groups spread word of free food

In the past year, the price of groceries has jumped nearly 5 percent and the cost of staples like milk and bread, the core of a college diet, have shot up by more than 30 percent.

Struggling college students turn to food banks

updated 12:52 p.m. PT, Fri., July. 25, 2008

SEATTLE - Just blocks from the University of Washington, a line of people shuffle toward a food pantry, awaiting handouts such as milk and bread.

For years, the small University District pantry has offered help to the working poor and single parents in this neighborhood of campus rentals. Now rising food prices are bringing another group: Struggling college students.

"Right now, with things the way they are, a lot of students just can't afford to eat," said Terry Capleton, who started a Facebook group called "I Ain't Afraid to be on Food Stamps" when he was a student at Benedict College in South Carolina.

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"There is a stereotype that well, if they're in college, they can afford to eat," said Brickner-Wood, the food pantry director. "But there are some students who have hardly any disposable income, and because of that, the food budget suffers. They either eat really badly, or they just don't eat enough."

Standing outside a campus market, University of Washington junior Doug McManaway wonders how he will afford to pay for groceries through the summer term.

[ChazII]

1. Luckily WA has lots of food banks

http://cted.wa.gov/maps/

This looks like a good site. On the right it has a list of places/counties. Several churches are listed.

Pierce County - All Saints Community Services Food Bank
Pierce County - Allen Ame Food Pantry
Pierce County - Asbury Community Food Bank
Pierce County - Bikers Against Statewide Hunger - WA
Pierce County - Bonney Lake Food Bank
Pierce County - Bounty Food Bank
Pierce County - Bread Box F.I.S.H Food Bank
Pierce County - Bread of Life Buckley Food Bank
Pierce County - Buckley KIWANIS Food Bank
Pierce County - Camp Fire Boys & Girls Food Bank
Pierce County - Community Care Ministries Food Bank
Pierce County - Eatonville Multipurpose Center
Pierce County - Edgewood F.I.S.H. Food Bank
Pierce County - F.I.S.H. of Puyallup Valley
Pierce County - Father's House Ministries
Pierce County - Fife/Milton/Edgewood F.I.S.H. Food Bank
Pierce County - Food Connection
Pierce County - Gig Harbor F.I.S.H.
Pierce County - Graham F.I.S.H. Food Bank
Pierce County - Jackson Street F.I.S.H. Food Bank
Pierce County - Josephs Storehouse for Living Word Assembly
Pierce County - Key Peninsula Food Bank
Pierce County - Lakes F.I.S.H. Food Bank
Pierce County - Ministries of Bread of Life Food Bank
Pierce County - My Sister's Pantry
Pierce County - New Jerusalem Food Bank
Pierce County - Salvation Army Food Bank Tacoma
Pierce County - Salvation Army Puyallup Food Bank
Pierce County - South Tacoma F.I.S.H. Food Bank
Pierce County - Southeast Asian Diets F.I.S.H.
Pierce County - Southeast Tacoma F.I.S.H. Food Bank
Pierce County - Spanaway F.I.S.H. Food Bank
Pierce County - Springbrook Mobile Food Bank
Pierce County - St Andrews Food Bank
Pierce County - Sumner F.I.S.H. Food Bank
Pierce County - TACS Special Diet Food Bank
Pierce County - Tillicum Food Bank
Pierce County - University Place F.I.S.H. Food Bank
Pierce County - Visitation
Pierce County - We Love Steilacoom Food Pantry

I recently had to help a friend in Pierce County who was going through divorce and medical issues.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. wow. Thanks for the list.

[ChazII]

3. You are welcome.

I am just glad that I kept the site bookmarked. Hope that you will not have to use it.