There are also a few people who need food who are college students.
At work, through the contacts of one of the millennials that work for me, apparently there are a some students at universities who are having a difficult time. They aren’t from financially well-to-do families, but through their academic merit got a free ride to these schools. Except the free portion is only tuition. They still needed to pay for room and board, where one or two meals was included with the room and board cost. Those students also worked for the university, perhaps as a clerk or hourly administrative person.
Well, the university is closed, and went to online learning. Problem is they can’t stay in the dorm because that’s closed, and since the university is shutdown, they don’t have a job either. So they don’t get their included meals, and they have no job to pay for meals, and they can’t exactly call their parents and ask for money that their parents don’t have from abroad. The office pooled money together and we’re sponsoring a few of these kids that these millenial colleagues know that are just out of luck, so they don’t have to continue to go to the food bank…Some of the schools provided “host families” to provide them a place to stay, which is good.
