SPRINGFIELD, MA (WGGB/WSHM) - The Healey-Driscoll Administration has announced nearly $500,000 in awards to help combat campus hunger at colleges and universities across the state.

In western Massachusetts alone, nearly $97,000 are going to seven schools including Greenfield Community College, Holyoke Community College, Springfield Technical Community College, Westfield State University and UMass Amherst.

The funds will serve an estimated 36,000 Massachusetts students so they can focus on their studies, rather than where their next meal will come from. Several of these schools have also launched their own campus food pantries, including UMass Amherst, who opened theirs in September with help from the Amherst Survival Center.

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