KC Food Pantry helps KCUSD families fighting food insecurity in Orange Cove

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Kings Canyon Unified School District is helping combat nutrient insecurity.

The "KC Cares Pantry" is unfastened 5 days a week to supply support.

Students unpaid to stack, benignant and heap nutrient into the KC Cares Food Pantry.

All of them are portion of an autarkic survey astatine Mountain View School successful the Kings Canyon Unified School District.

As monthly shipments travel in, they signifier and enactment them distant for territory families successful need.

Senior Jasmine Zepeda says she decided to unpaid due to the fact that she and her household faced nutrient insecurity successful the past.

"Seeing everyone tin get the food, get each the resources they request assistance with it makes maine consciousness blessed and arrogant of myself for doing this," Zepeda said.

The nutrient pantry is housed astatine the Community Learning Center successful Orange Cove.

District Social Worker Sebastian Villasenor says the assets was created retired of a request successful the district.

"A batch of families truly person been struggling with this request for many, many, galore years, successful silence," Villasenor said.

If a household needs to sojourn the pantry, a backstage assignment is created for them to shop.

Families get to prime which items they want, including eggs, caller fruit, oregon frozen chicken.

Villasenor says that by having the assets disposable successful the district, they don't person to wonderment if families received assistance from extracurricular resources.

"When families talked astir a request with nutrient insecurity, it could beryllium respective weeks earlier the adjacent nutrient transportation and past we ne'er knew if the household made it to that assignment oregon to that scheduled clip to prime up immoderate items," Villasenor said.

He hopes this gives students invaluable enactment acquisition and helps to relieve parents trying to provender their families.

"The biggest happening we're looking to spot is that that accent is reduced truthful that the location beingness is simply a small spot healthier. It's a small spot much balanced and not truthful hectic astatine times trying to marque ends meet," Villasenor said.

Social workers are keeping way of immoderate families who whitethorn request ongoing support. They stock a compiled database of assemblage resources for those who whitethorn request much help.

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