Journal of Social Intervention: Theory and Practice – 2016 – Volume 25, Issue 1, pp. 71–89
http://doi.org/10.18352/jsi.477 ISSN: 1876-8830
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Publisher: Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Society and Law, in cooperation with Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals Copyright: this work has been published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Netherlands License
De Regenboog Groep, an organization with a mission to reduce social poverty through social, informal and day care.
Jonathan Berg, BSc is a graduate student in Medical Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. He was project-assistant at De Regenboog Groep untill 2015.
Correspondence to: Hille Hoogland, Ceramplein 71, 1095DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
E-mail: hillehoogland.hh@gmail.com
Received: 5 October 2015 Accepted: 8 February 2016 Category: Research
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Experiences of shame and psychological suffering by foodbank clients
Foodbanks have existed for over ten years in the Netherlands. They provide weekly food parcels to 94,000 households, according to the most recent figures published by the national Dutch food bank organization at the end of 2014. The national foodbank organizations set qualifying criteria for clients who wish to receive a food parcel on a weekly basis. Foodbanks in the Netherlands have different ways of distributing the food to their clients. In some foodbanks the clients need to stand in line and receive a pre-packaged food parcel. In other foodbanks, clients can choose which products they take home. The food is donated, which means that the contents of the food parcels vary in terms of both the amount of food that they contain and the type of food. Research
Hille Hoogland, MSc is a medical anthropologist. She is conducting (external) PhD research about foodbank clients in Amsterdam and the effects of participation on a trainee programme. She is also a project manager at