" I learned that I had to put my pride to one side and ask for help"

I can speak personally about this. After becoming unemployed through ill health, and being in receipt of benefits, I learned that I had to put my pride to one side and ask for help. My experience of walking into the food bank in Dunfermline, if I am being honest was daunting to say the least, as I have never experienced or considered myself to be in poverty.