| Overall Rating | Silver |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 49.83 |
| Liaison | YOLANDA MENDOZA CAVAZOS |
| Submission Date | June 30, 2022 |
Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas
IN-14: Food Bank
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
0.50 / 0.50 |
Yolanda
Mendoza MSc. Sustainability |
Does the institution host a food bank, pantry, or equivalent resource focused on alleviating food insecurity, hunger and poverty among students?:
A brief description of the food bank, pantry, or equivalent resource:
University Dining Hall Academic Unit of Sciences, Education and Humanities.
For eight years, the Multidisciplinary Academic Unit of Education, Sciences and Humanities has supported the feeding of its low-income students through its university dining room, the first established at the UAT.
This idea arises from an agreement that was established with the president of the DIF Tamaulipas, with which it was intended to give the food benefit to students with very limited resources in order to avoid desertion and truncate their careers due to that nutritional deficit and the fact of being forced to work and drop out of school. Thanks to this agreement, the director had the physical facilities built in a space of the academic unit, while the municipal DIF and the Tamaulipas DIF provided the furniture: stoves, refrigerators, cupboards and others. We started serving a group of
between five and ten students; we currently have ninety-three beneficiaries; half of them receive breakfast and the other half are provided with lunch.
Website URL where information about the food bank is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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