Valencia College students short of money and worried they cannot afford food can now shop for free at a new, on-campus food pantry designed to look like a small store and offer stigma-free shopping.
The VCentials store replaces a smaller, closet-style pantry on Valencia’s West Orange County campus in Orlando, Florida in the United States. It aims to deal with a sobering statistic: In a 2021 survey, 40% of Valencia’s students reported struggling to afford the food they needed.
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