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The Pegasus cooperative occupied three buildings in one cottage.
Around it, three hectares were torn from the river, reclaimed at least a century before, when the plain was a swamp and farmers died like flies from malaria. Mother Cecilia ran the cooperative, where a dozen or so young people with disabilities worked.
The young people mostly tried their hand at small craft activities such as embroidery, painting on canvas, ceramics, or the more fun and less demanding decoupage.
People with less severe disabilities were responsible for the garden and packaging of organic produce. Fresh seasonal fruit and vegetables were processed into tasty jams that could be bought at the cooperative's store.
The small nun with the sharp mouse nose, the unusually large spectacle frame, got the boys i
