Andrea Joyce

I struggle to keep up with sari-clad Ratna Soni as she leads me around the garden, rapidly reciting the Hindi names and healing powers of the plants we walk by. This inspiring woman is in charge of Sambhavna Trust’s half-hectare medicinal plot, which provides Ayurvedic herbal medicines to the survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide pesticide plant explosion in Bhopal, India. Living at Sambhavna Clinic as a volunteer from Canada, I have looked out over this garden every day for six weeks. ...