Family Pantry Aides Students, Faculty, and the Community

by Samuel Shanahan

The Family Pantry of Cape Cod at 4C’s is here to help make a difference for the students, faculty, and staff of the community. The pantry at 4C’s is the subsidiary of the Family Pantry of Cape Cod in Harwich, which provides all the food that is given to the students, faculty, and staff. Anyone who is actively a participant in the college can go and get one bag of nonperishable food per week.

            To help people save money as well as bounce back from the pandemic, the pantry tries to keep the same food products in stock. People can rely on the food pantry to have peanut butter, tuna fish, cereal, etc. This allows more money to be spent on fruit, vegetables, meat, and beauty supplies seeing how expensive those can be.

            Kelly Brux is one of the volunteers at the Family Pantry.

 “Students will ask if they can volunteer here, and because of privacy issues, we don’t let them come into the pantry. However, they (students) can have a health and beauty aids drive,” says Brux.

            Although the food pantry is here for students, faculty, and staff of the community, donations are welcome. The pantry asks if students, faculty, or staff bring donations in, that they bring each item individually wrapped.

            The Food Pantry at 4C’s is open on Tuesdays from noon to 2 p.m. and on Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. People can pick up their bag of food at the Life Fitness Center at 4C’s. It is about a 5-minute registration the first visit. After that, people show their card that has a number and sign in with your card number to get your bag of food every week.

The Family Pantry logo. 

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