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Table 14 Network and aid

From: Identification of food insecurity factors in French-speaking Belgium: a qualitative study

Table 14.1

“(...) I still have friends who still have money, good, who help me a lot, and if they go to the restaurant, and I have no money, they still take me with them and, good, they don’t ask me for anything afterwards. (Interview n°6)

“- [Speaking of the family] So, there, for some time, I have not asked them anymore uh ... I see them a little less, because I try to let them be, I contacted today, you know, this organization [CPAS] for uh ... to solicit their help.” (Interview n°8)

Table 14.2

“- Investigator: (...) Did you ever, in the past, benefit from a food aid program, food parcels or anything else?

- Participant: No, never, not me. Because I have a lot of pride, so, therefore, I never uh...” (Interview n°6)

“- [Speaking of food aid] Because we must be, how ... a household composition ... and as we are removed from the municipality, we cannot get it...” (Interview n°1)

“- Restaurants du Coeur, they salt, they pepper while cooking, so, it gives the impression at times that it is hospital kitchens, that’s it. So, well, me at the Restaurants du Coeur, I’m not going there.” (Interview n°7)