Swipe it Forward<\/a> events with Dining Services. Facilitated by Sodexo, Swipe it Forward took place over two days and encouraged the Brock community to donate $1 to $5 while purchasing a meal at any dining location across campus.<\/p>\nBryan Boles, Associate Vice-President of Ancillary Services, said the decision to support the worthy cause required no deliberation.<\/p>\n
\u201cFood insecurity is a cause that I have always been passionate about,\u201d he said, \u201cand learning that our on-campus food bank needed support due to increased demand provided a great opportunity to partner with BUSU.\u201d<\/p>\n
Malcolm Dales, Associate Director Operations, Ancillary Services, said there\u2019s a need on campus for this type of support to continue.<\/p>\n
\u201cFood insecurity is a real issue that faces many students at Brock and we were eager to find a way to contribute in a meaningful way,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The partnership between Ancillary Services and BUSU has allowed BUSU to serve more students with food and health insecurity needs.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year, BUSU\u2019s Food First program provided more than 1,200 food packages to undergraduate and graduate students \u2014 the highest usage rates ever experienced in the history of the program,\u201d said Heather McLean, BUSU\u2019s Director of Business Operations.<\/p>\n
\u201cClearly students are increasingly experiencing food insecurity at alarming levels, and so on behalf of BUSU and the Food First program and staff, we wish to extend our sincere gratitude to Brock Ancillary Services for their partnership and support, which has allowed us to serve more students than ever before.\u201d<\/p>\n
BUSU first began providing food bank services in 2011. The program has continued to evolve through the years before becoming Food First, as it is known today, in 2016.<\/p>\n
BUSU and Ancillary Services are both looking forward to reflecting on the past year and planning for future opportunities to grow this partnership.<\/p>\n
To access the program or find out more details, visit the Food First web page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Through a partnership with the Brock University Students\u2019 Union (BUSU), Brock\u2019s Ancillary Services has been hard at work helping to ensure no student on campus goes hungry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,1,4],"tags":[6354,2203,6707,133,7342,7835,7404],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57619,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57617\/revisions\/57619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}