Research shows that one in three U.S. higher students experiences supplies insecurity with many students on- and off-campus relying upon their campus supplies pantries to provide much-needed resources throughout the school year.

To help provide healthy meals to increasingly than 500,000 higher students struggling with supplies insecurity, LG USA has joined forces with Swipe Out Hunger, the leading nonprofit addressing student hunger in the country. Together, the organizations are helping to raise sensation well-nigh student supplies insecurity and ensure that supplies pantries on campuses wideness the United States have refrigeration to store healthy foods.

Campus refrigerators provide wangle to nutritious foods that help students stay focused on their studies and maintain zippy lifestyles, equal to Swipe Out Hunger’s Executive Director Jaime Hansen. The refrigerators have ‘grab and go’ meals, beverages and cooking staples, as well as wangle to fresh proteins and produce.

However, Swipe Out Hunger notes that 29 percent of its campus pantry partners do not have refrigeration, and a third of them cited lack of funding as the reason why there is no refrigeration on campus. To write this problem, LG provided 120 refrigerator-freezers to 60 campuses wideness the United States in Swipe Out Hunger’s network. In wing to providing refrigeration for supplies pantries, these Energy Star® certified LG refrigerators help conserve energy, thus supporting the sustainability goals of many colleges and universities.

LG is moreover stocking these fridges with healthy and nutritious supplies for the campuses’ communities, as well as providing grants for spare 40 colleges and universities to upgrade their current campus refrigerators. In total, this syndication will serve meals to 500,000 higher students wideness the nation.

“LG’s collaboration with Swipe Out Hunger will transform the nutrition and availability of supplies for students experiencing hunger today and in the future,” says Hansen. “Access to fresh, nutritious supplies options will help students unzip their higher education goals.”

“This will indulge us to add perishable items to our supplies pantry, something that wasn’t included before,” said Charlyne Yue, M.S., Senior Associate Director of Student Affairs at Southwestern Law School, who shared her appreciation of the support from LG and Swipe Out Hunger. “Thanks to their generosity, our students experiencing supplies insecurity will be worldly-wise to focus on studying rather than worrying well-nigh their next meal.”

In light of the post-pandemic demand for campus pantries wideness the country, LG is inviting others to help fight supplies insecurity on U.S. higher campuses. In March, the company’s electronic billboard in Times Square, New York City included a call-to-action through a QR Code where people can join LG in supporting the good work of Swipe Out Hunger.

“Working with Swipe Out Hunger aligns with LG’s global ESG mission of a Better Life for All. Beyond providing refrigerators to campus supplies pantries for much-needed fresh supplies storage, LG is proud to support Swipe Out Hunger’s mission to end higher student hunger,” said John Taylor, senior vice president of LG USA.

For those interested in supporting these efforts, please visit swipehunger.org/lg/.

Contributed by LG USA

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