On a chilly Monday evening in early December, 45-year old Piera entered a food bank in the centre of Belgium's capital city, Brussels.
An Italian national, Piera had spent three years homeless on the streets of Brussels before finding her way back into a job and an apartment.
Soft-spoken and smiling, she keeps returning to a place that welcomes those struggling to get by, with both food and camaraderie.
"They gave me a lot of help," she says of Kamiano, which hands out foo...
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