Article 4X5S9 ‘I feel born again’: recovering from trauma, one tree at a time

‘I feel born again’: recovering from trauma, one tree at a time

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Patrick Barkham
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Trees for Life, one of four charities chosen for our climate appeal, runs projects that offer 'eco-therapy' to its volunteers
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Paul Valencia Palaiios has walked for two hours from the east end of Glasgow to Govan to describe what it is like to plant a tree.

The 39-year-old asylum seeker from El Salvador sits in the offices of Govan Community Project - a charity that provides everything from English lessons to legal advice for refugees - and beams.

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