Children were aware that issues around food insecurity affected all children, or ‘normal people’ but they also highlighted particular groups of children who should be involved:
“People who don’t have enough money.”
“The ones who are born homeless.”
“Children who don’t get enough vegetables and healthy food.”
“The younger children, because the older children have had enough time being alive.”
“… if a kid’s disabled, not think ‘oh, they’re disabled, they’re not as important’. They should treat everyone as an equal.”
Children had lots of ideas for practical ways of including children in dialogue around food insecurity, including by listening carefully and building respectful relationships. Some ways to do this were to:
“… listen to everything that every child says to her and take it all in and write it down and do all she can.”
“… listen to people’s ideas and see if they can get all of them because there might be all different ideas and maybe they could use them all and combine them into one big idea.”
“… speak to them nicely because they’re having a very hard time without any food.”
“… look at them when you’re talking to them.”
“… [not] stamp your feet too loud when you’re walking.”
“… stay focused.”