Our programmes are based on the idea that by improving her own situation, a woman is by extension lifting up her entire community. Bernadette has taken this a step further. After rebuilding her own life from the ground up by growing mushrooms, she began training other women to do the same. Then she expanded her vision even more and started working in prisons, teaching inmates to grow mushrooms in their own individual allotments. Many of these inmates committed atrocities during the genocide, atrocities she herself was a victim of. By teaching them how to nurture and reproduce the cycle of life in a little patch of soil, she herself has begun a community-wide cycle of reconciliation. Something to think about the next time you find yourself enjoying a bowl of mushroom soup.
What do you think? Do you admire Bernadette’s ability to forgive or would you be more reluctant to face your abusers?
What do you think? Do you admire Bernadette’s ability to forgive or would you be more reluctant to face your abusers?
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