When Ashley St. Aubin-Clark first set foot on the UW-Eau Claire campus, her vision was to develop her skills as a teacher.
What she didn’t expect was qualifying for food stamps and regularly visiting a food pantry during her fourth and fifth years in school. She is one of nearly four million college students nationwide without reliable access to nutritious food, also known as being “food insecure.”
It’s a challenge faced in the general population, as well. In 2017, nearly 16,000 people — or about 15 percent — in Eau Claire County received FoodShare (formerly known as food stamps) assistance, just below the state average of 16 percent.
25th annual “Stamp Out Hunger” food drive scheduled for May 13
The annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive, the largest single-day food drive in the world, will take place for the 25th time on Saturday, May 13. The food drive, organized by the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) and supported this year by eight other organizations, has collected a total of 1.5 billion pounds of […]
Food drive aims to break all-time record
By United Way staff Stamp Out Hunger, the one-day food drive organized by the National Association of Letter Carriers (NACL) and supported in part by United Way, is the largest single-day food drive in the world. It occurs on the second Saturday in May, which this year is May 14. The drive is orchestrated by local […]