{"id":334965,"date":"2025-10-27T00:45:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/334965\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T00:45:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:45:14","slug":"uta-food-drive-addresses-maverick-holiday-food-insecurity-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/334965\/","title":{"rendered":"UTA food drive addresses Maverick holiday food insecurity | Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"A door, next to a window with decorations that read Student Access and Resource Center.\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1763\" height=\"1175\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68fbbc30eddd5.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Student Access and Resource Center in University Hall is one of several locations where individuals can donate items. Suggested donations include rice, canned food and paper towels.<\/p>\n<p>                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theshorthorn.com\/users\/profile\/Mabel%20Cruz\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Photo by Mabel Cruz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFill the Pantry, Fill the Heart\u201d is a nonperishable food drive started by Andres Morales, Student Body vice president, to address food insecurity within the Maverick community during the holiday season. <\/p>\n<p>Apart from Student Government, seven departments and three Greek organizations on campus are participating in the initiative, which began Oct. 16 and will run through Nov. 15. <\/p>\n<p>Wanting to give back to the community, Morales connected with emergency assistance coordinator Courtney Liang and Michelle Kelly, health and well-being assistant vice president. <\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"A Maverick Pantry donation bin sits in a hallway, with one opening for food donations and another opening for clothing donations.\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1668\" height=\"1242\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68fbbc5203354.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"149\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Maverick Pantry donation bin sits inside the Follett Student Leadership Center on Oct. 24 at the University Center. Over 10 donation locations are available across campus.<\/p>\n<p>                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theshorthorn.com\/users\/profile\/Mabel%20Cruz\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Photo by Mabel Cruz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a really great idea,\u201d Liang said. \u201cSo we\u2019re like, \u2018Yes, let us know what we can do to help.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Bins are available around campus for donations, and a list of the most needed food items is on the Student Government\u2019s Instagram page. To donate, students and staff can drop off items into the bins to be collected at the end of the day. <\/p>\n<p>Examples of donation items include small bags of rice or dry beans, canned tuna, dried pasta and peanut butter. <\/p>\n<p>Kelly said that the timing of this effort perfectly coincides with recent federal changes that have affected local food banks. <\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"A white bin with a Fill the Pantry, Fill the Heart poster on it sits in a hallway.\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1763\" height=\"1175\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68fbbc192c841.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A donation bin for Maverick Pantry sits outside the Student Government office in University Center Room B160 on Oct. 24. The food drive is being held in collaboration with several other campus organizations.<\/p>\n<p>                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theshorthorn.com\/users\/profile\/Mabel%20Cruz\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Photo by Mabel Cruz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Morales said that if there\u2019s excess donations, the coordinators plan to donate to Mission Arlington, a faith-based nonprofit that serves the Arlington community. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat way we\u2019re not just feeding our campus, but we\u2019re also feeding the city itself,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Morales is hopeful to make this an annual tradition, contributing to campus culture, he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s fellow Mavericks feeding fellow Mavericks.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>@taylormakynzee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theshorthorn.com\/news\/campus\/uta-food-drive-addresses-maverick-holiday-food-insecurity\/mailto:news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Student Access and Resource Center in University Hall is one of several locations where individuals can donate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":334966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,9361,7371,7372,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-334965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-campus","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115443371664858210","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}