The Magdalene Program in Nashville Tennessee provides healing and recovery for women who are reaching out to leave the life of prostitution behind them. Violence and drugs being a prevalent aspect to life in prostitution, the program provides housing, therapy, and work for the women.
The community of Magdalene runs Thistle Farms, a self-sustaining business, that allows a place of healing and work for Magdalene graduates. The women not only create the natural bath and body products themselves, but learn skills essential jobs skill in manufacturing, packaging, marketing and sales and administration.
Like the women and their namesake depicts, a thistle is a stubborn weed that manages to grow in desolation. Though at first only sharp and prickly on the outside the weed eventually blooms beautifully.
www.thistlefarms.org
Story and audio via NPR.com
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