By Pam Rogers | Capacity Advisor/Addiction Trainer
The rainy season was severe this year in Karen State. All bridges to our DARE Centre broke and for a time it was very difficult to get rice to our staff and clients. Fortunately, the local leaders stepped in and ensured that everyone was fed.
Now at last the dry season has begun. The DARE Staff and clients have started new gardens.
I recently learned that all the farmers had left the area around the DARE Centre because they believed it was inhabited by ghosts. They were fearful. But since DARE has being growing their vegetable crops, more farmers have returned to their fields. The ghosts have showed up a couple of times but that is another story.
Now, from the materials and grasses around the DARE Centre a new kind of therapy for the clients has emerged. They have begun to make baskets, brooms and hammocks from the things around them. We all know basket weaving is therapeutic but so too is broom making and when they are finished knotting their hammocks, they can sleep in them. We no longer need to source these useful tools from the city.
Enjoy the photos
DARE Network Team Karen State
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