According to the US Government Accountability Office, 23% of college students are food insecure, meaning they don't have enough access to quality nutritional food.

For the last ten years at Eastern Kentucky University, the Colonel's cupboard has been working to fight food insecurity on campus, providing free groceries to any student in need.

The Colonel's cupboard is a free resource for students here on campus, and we have free resources for anyone who needs it.

Whether you have food insecurity or not, or you just need a quick pick me up.

We've got food, clothes, hygiene products, laundry stuff, anything you can really think of we have here free.

So we definitely.

Have our own.

I don't think we could be a college food pantry without it, but we have a lot more than that.

We try to keep on hand bread, milk, eggs because they're a little hard to keep on hand because they're in high demand.

They go very fast, but generally just keeping your stable food.

And then obviously, we have like a lot of canned foods, like canned vegetables, soup, things like that.

There are no requirements.

You can come up at any time.

It doesn't matter whether you are just stopping by during your lunch or a break between classes.

If you just need some clothes for an interview, if you are food insecure, or if you just don't want to make it out to the grocery store, it does not matter.

You can always come up here.

Coming from a college student, college is expensive and finances are completely different in college for many different people.

So I think it's really helpful to have a free resource on campus for students and stuff like that.

One of the big things that people don't think about a lot is time.

Your classes could be from 8 a.m. to like 7 p.m..

I've had law students come in.

They're like, I just don't have the time.

And then there's also like access, like a law.

Students come in, they're like, Yep, I have to take the shuttle to go to Walmart.

And that's not always ideal, especially if for whatever reason, it's not running.

If the shuttle is not running, they're not getting a Walmart.

One of our goals in our office is that this feels like your pantry.

There's a lot of like, you know, not everyone likes the idea of hearing food pantry and going to the food pantry, but like, thinking about it is like, this is your pantry you're going into, like, you know, your cupboard grabbing food and things like that.

Like the way we have it set up.

Is that is just, you know, it feels like you're going into your own house, grabbing your own food.

Everyone that comes in, they are always a little bit worried about taking too much.

And I'm always here reassuring them like, No, please take more.

One of the big things that I lead with is that the more this resources used, the more that we can say it's needed and the more that we can say we are needed, the more that we can keep going and keep getting better.

And then also, it does help with the stigma of just anyone can come here.

So there's no a legal have to make assumptions about who's coming here because anyone can be here.

To celebrate its 10th anniversary.

Kernels covered raised more than $10,000 last month.

Staff says the money will go towards purchasing food.