‘Working with flowers makes me feel alive. Slowly, slowly it changes me’
‘When I work with flowers, I’m happy, I stress less, I feel relief,’ says Iris*. A version of this uplifting statement is something I hear a lot as I speak to the women taking part in a floristry workshop organised by Strength & Stem, a charity whose ambitious aim is to fight slavery with flowers. The women – eight of them here today – have all survived being trafficked
