FVH Operations
Pantry Hours (Hemenway Hall 111)
The pantry hours for the month of Spring 2025 as of February 3are:
Mondays 12-4pm
Wednesdays 11am-3pm, except on Food Drop days (2/12, 3/12. 4/9, & 5/14)
Thursdays 8:30-12:30am
Fridays 8am-12pm
Our hours are built around our student staff members’ class schedules. Any adjustments that are made during the semester are posted on our instagram page, www.instagram.com/foodvaulthawaii
We are closed on recognized state holidays and during instructional break periods (e.g. spring recess).
Please bring a reusable grocery bag with you!
Food Drop @ the Campus Center Courtyard
2nd Wednesdays of the month during the academic semester
February 12, 2025
March 12, 2025
April 9, 2025
May 14, 2025
The Hawaii Foodbank delivery truck is scheduled to drop off the food between 1030-11am and we need at least 30-45 mins to organize the delivery. Registration begins at 11am on the WRC Lanai, it continues throughout the event. Food Distribution begins at approximately 12noon, and continues while supplies last.
Please bring reusable grocery bags, a box, or a wagon with you to the monthly Food Drop event.
Meal Swipe Program
The FVH Meal Swipe Program operates during fall and spring semesters to redistribute unused, donated meal swipes to Hale Aloha and Gateway Cafes. For more information, please contact fvh@hawaii.edu.
Partnerships:
Since opening in October 2018, SLD has experimented with other opportunities to address food insecurity such as Food Drop @ the Campus Center Courtyard in partnership with Hawaii Health and Harm Reduction Center and the Hawaii FoodBank (pre-Covid). This event went on hiatus during COVID, and was restarted in the Spring of 2023.
Sodexo, our campus food service provider has partnered with FVH to offer the Meal Swipe Program. Thank you, Sodexo.
FVH has partnered with non-profits Aloha Harvest, Keiki-Ade, Healthy Steps Hawaii, and local churches to offer food products to UH Manoa students.
We are very thankful for the generosity of these agencies and donors throughout our campus and larger communities for supporting UHM students. There is an abundance of aloha for UHM students in need.
For More Information
For more information about FVH operations and its offerings, please visit the FVH Instagram and Facebook pages. All updates are located on the social media pages. You may also contact us at fvh@hawaii.edu or sld@hawaii.edu.
FVH Reports:
The following are links to our reports.
DONATIONS
FVH accepts non-perishable, unopened, unexpired food and toiletries via the Office of Student Life and Development (SLD) in Campus Center 208, Monday through Friday, 8am-4:30pm, except on recognized state holidays. Suggested items are:
FVH does not accept cash donations. While we appreciate your generosity, please do not send cash. Please support FVH by donating food or toiletries. If you prefer to make a monetary donation, please do so through the University of Hawaiʻi Foundation.
ABOUT FVH
Food Vault Hawai‘i (FVH) was initiated by the Associated Students of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (ASUH) in Spring 2018 through ASUH Senate Resolution 06-18. FVH was thereafter established in Fall 2018 through the collaboration of the ASUH, the Campus Center Board (CCB), the Student Activity and Program Fee Board (SAPFB), and the Office of Student Life and Development (SLD). FVH is operated by SLD with the support of three student fellow positions funded by the Office of the Vice Provost for Student Success. The purpose of FVH is to assist students facing food insecurity starting with non-perishable food and toiletries during the pilot.
ASUH leaders expressed a desire that the FVH pantry be open to any current UHM student who finds themselves in need of food.
At its inception, FVH was intended to run a three year pilot program from Fall 2018 through Spring 2021, then to review data to assess the continued need. The COVID-19 pandemic hit in the middle of the second year of the pilot impacting operations and the data. Post-pandemic, the pantry will complete two additional years of operations to have a full three years of “pilot” data for review. This will likely include the 22-23 and 23-24 academic years.
The initial start-up funds to establish FVH came from ASUH, SAPFB, and SLD. The initial $1,000 required to establish the FVH UH Foundation account came from the generosity of 88 Supermarket on Ke’eaumoku, Young Tae Kim (Korean Chamber of Commerce), and former ASUH senate member: Jessica Chen.