Emergence
The life within a seed can only emerge when the right conditions are present; otherwise, all that potential for growth and vitality remains hidden and dormant. In recent times, our experience with urban farming and microgreens has deepened our understanding of the incredible power locked inside seeds when grounded in nurturing soil. This truth closely mirrors the work we do at Eden.
Eden’s mission is to be light, bring hope and share love. We understand that for a seed to blossom, it needs to be planted in good soil.
The women and girls who join our program are like seeds, each carrying immense potential. At Eden, we work tirelessly to create the right conditions for this potential to flourish. When these women and girls come to us, they enter a safe environment filled with hope, love, and endless possibilities. Within Eden's programs, they are "planted" in an atmosphere that nurtures their growth. Through love, acceptance, and healing, we water those seeds, and what emerges is something extraordinary—a new potential, a new life.
Additionally, our hope for this project is to transform the soil of Myanmar from its current dry and desolate state to one where its people can find a future in the fertile and rich soil of their land.
Our hope is that in Myanmar, transformation occurs from the ground up. That new life, new hope, and new dreams can be fed by change, new ideas, education, growth of a generation and enhanced capacity to solve problems. We believe that Eden’s microgreens project can be part of this transformation, promoting and enabling better baseline health for the people of Myanmar. Currently, 15.2 million people in Myanmar are living in dire poverty, without basic nutritious food to live and move beyond survival.
Eden’s microgreens program incorporates the education provided to vulnerable communities regarding healthy eating, nutrition and the link between these and improved overall health, reduced hospital visits and medical bills. Research shows that reduced poverty will in turn reduce risk and vulnerability to trafficking and being caught in financial debt.
The microgreen crops are grown by trafficking survivors, participants in vulnerable and poverty-stricken communities, and by workers at the Eden office, in the grounds of our safe shelters, and in our drop-in centers by survivors of human trafficking. This multi-site involvement is a beautiful picture reflecting the flow-on effect of a small microgreens project in a home restoring women, their families and impacting whole communities through economic empowerment.
The Emergence collection was designed to celebrate this work and to honor the many survivors of human trafficking who are part of the microgreen project. Fashioned from the shape of a seed, this collection has been inspired by symbols of newness, life, germination, and roots. The design of the earring and necklace represents a seed and the green crystal represents its radicle. A radicle is the primary embryonic root of a plant and it emerges from the seed first to enhance water uptake. The seed itself symbolises new growth, and the radicle the hope that serves as a foundation of one person's life.
This collection represents the thousands of transformed lives that began as a single seed sown into an environment at Eden that fosters growth, strength, and renewal. Each piece is a testament to the incredible journey from potential to transformation, reflecting the power of creating the right conditions for the emergence of a transformed life.
