UL Lafayette nursing students have installed a community refrigerator in Maurice, La., that provides free perishables essential to the health and well-being of people who lack access to them. Students, from left, are Payton Miller, Mackenzie Lynd, Zahria Lloyd and Carrington Neveaux. Photo credit: UL Lafayette College of Nursing & Health Sciences
Feeding Vermilion: UL Lafayette nursing students serve up nutrition with community fridge in Maurice
MAURICE — Residents of Maurice who are in need of fresh fruit and vegetables, produce, eggs, milk and other perishables essential to their health and well-being can search for them inside a new community refrigerator.
That’s thanks to a group of students enrolled in Nursing 340, a community health course at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The course brings second-semester juniors in the College of Nursing & Health Sciences out of typical clinical settings and into communities. Students conduct research and assessments that inform service-learning projects.