Vipul Grover and his team in the Project Management program at Algonquin College wanted to help fight food insecurity among students. Their resulting fundraising project is one of the many that will be on display during the RE/ACTION Showcase on Aug. 12.
Their plan was designed with the intent to raise $1,000 in grocery donations for the College’s Students’ Association Food Cupboard, a resource that provides groceries and other aid to students who are financially struggling.
Roughly 40 per cent of post-secondary students in Canada face inadequate access to food, according to a study released by Meal Exchange, a Canadian charitable organization. Grover and his team — also consisting of Brianna Munch, Juhi Pinto, Karen Gil, Ronak Bhasin and Ekta Patel — chose to work on student food security due to team members and friends’ previous use of the Food Cupboard.