The Pave Project Report - Queen's University Belfast

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The PAVE Project Report
“… we have K (name of a man), who is our outreach worker and he was out visiting
families. And what they tried to do is getting him to visit my sister-in-law and her
family when they have problems, or when they feel under pressure, and that’s
been very good. So, it means they’ve always… I live forty miles from here. So, it’s
not easy for me, you know, to help my sister-in-law. So, if there is anything…, if
she rings me about something, I can ring K to visit her, if I’m working. So, that’s
been very good.”
Interviewee E, who lost her mother when she was a child, talked about befriending as
the service that helped her most. She understood befriending as being able to call in to
the drop-in-centre and be able to talk to somebody, one of the workers who had a
similar experience and who will listen to her:
“… it’s probably not a service that you would see so much, because it wasn’t a
class,… I suppose you could call it befriending, the fact that somebody took the
time to sit and talk to me. … the therapies… and the classes… and that, great! you
know, because they stretch you and you are out socialising with other people and
all the rest. But the fact that somebody took the time to listen to you and it
wasn’t a…, wait until you hear what happened to me, it is let you have your time to
speak and get it off your chest.”