Provisioning

Acquiring day-to-day needs through begging for donations of hard goods, such as groceries, usually from stores and shops.

Other commodities that were often provisioned included hotel accomodation, transportation, restaurant meals and electronic equipment.

In some cases, the donation was in the form of left-over restaurant food or was gleaned by hunting through refuse.

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