The Viking Vault served 1,200 students last week, providing groceries, hygiene and parenting items on campus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The primary mission of the vault is to help students suffering from food scarcity and assist LBCC-eligible students in completing federal CalFresh applications for free groceries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Viking vaults, provided by the college\u2019s Basic Needs Program, caters to all students enrolled at LBCC and are located on both LAC and PCC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Justin Mendez, the Basic Needs Program manager, the vault\u2019s success has served 16,690 students and has distributed 103,967 pounds of food for 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Various items to select from can be found in the vaults, such as beans, rice, ramen soup, eggs, apple sauce, fruit, hygiene items and diapers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Due to the closure of the cafeteria last semester, students were left with overpriced snacks and off-campus foods. The vault has had an increase in student participants this semester. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
While they want to accommodate everyone, their main focus is those suffering from food insecurities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOne in five community college students is experiencing homelessness,\u201d said Jesse Marroquin, Basic Needs Outreach Specialist employee of the Viking Vault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Marroquin has been serving the LBCC student community for approximately 8 months and has noticed a drastic positive response to such resources being available for students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf you are suffering from food scarcity, they are there for you. No student is turned away,\u201d Marroquin said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Viking Vault is sponsored by both Long Beach City College and donors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you would like to help out a fellow student who is unable to obtain necessities, you can donate food or hygiene items. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Only unopened, unexpired, and undamaged items are accepted and distributed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you would like to donate money, the link to donate is https:\/\/lbcc.edu\/pod\/makeagift<\/a> select: Student Emergency Fund and Basic Needs Fund<\/strong> for funds to go directly to support the Vault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The vault can be reached at (562) 938-5045 or basicneeds@lbcc.edu<\/a>, for more information: www.tinyurl.com\/vikingvault<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Viking Vault served 1,200 students last week, providing groceries, hygiene and parenting items on campus. The primary mission of the vault is to help students suffering from food scarcity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":10802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[3549,4559,4534,454,4730,4731,4782,4732,74,29,1263,142,68,73,1377],"class_list":["post-10801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-basic-needs","tag-cain","tag-cain-carbajal","tag-calfresh","tag-carbajal","tag-cindy","tag-cindy-jester","tag-jester","tag-lac","tag-lbcc","tag-lifestyle","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-city-college","tag-pcc","tag-viking-vault"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Skgy-2Od","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lbccviking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Lifestyle_20230223_LACVikingVault_CCarbajal_7775.png?fit=6000%2C4000&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbccviking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbccviking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbccviking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbccviking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbccviking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lbccviking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10803,"href":"https:\/\/lbccviking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801\/revisions\/10803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbccviking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbccviking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbccviking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbccviking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}