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Genla, our Teacher at Tharpa Choeling, asked us to put together bags for women leaving prison who have a connection to Buddhism through our chaplaincy work. The bags included a mobile phone, toiletries and Buddhist items.
This week a local social worker, Shiree, gave a bag to a recently released woman who identified the prayer flags included in the bag straight away. She knew them because Venerable Pema had brought prayer flags into the Honour House at the prison some years before and they had been put up in the gardens there. 
The lady who received the bag said she would put up the prayer flags at her own house. And Shiree mentioned that the prayer flags at Honour House were the first prayer flags to fly in a Correctional Facility in Australia.