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Jaren geleden bijvoorbeeld moest een meisje van achttien uit het Antwerpse een beenmergtransplantatie krijgen. Ze kon dat niet betalen, omdat haar ouders onder de armoedegrens leefden. .. Het was bouwheer Willy Naessens die de transplantatie heeft betaald.' (Years ago for example, a girl of eighteen from Antwerp had to get a bone marrow transplant. She could not afford it because her parents lived below the poverty line. .. It was builder Willy Naessens who paid for the transplant.)
