Episode 11 - Jenny Bonham-Carter - Parenting
Episode description
Jenny Bonham Carter is also currently serving on the board of Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries, Newton, MA.
She writes, "My first experience of interfaith work started about five and a half years ago. I was then in the middle of doing my masters degree in human rights at the university of Uppsala in Sweden and I was planning for the semester of field work. I did this with a youth interfaith organization in Sweden called ”Together for Sweden” and when the field work semester was over I stayed involved and partly employed in the project pretty much until we moved from Sweden to the US last spring. I wrote my thesis on interfaith work and the connection with human rights, this was also an evaluation of the project. Parts of my thesis was later used in a book on interfaith workshop methods etc published by the project. The main activity of Together for Sweden is to bring youth of different religions together, to offer them a leadership training (storytelling is also part of it) and give workshops in schools and a few other places. I was involved in this training, the workshops, helping organizing conferences and other activities. I was responsible for music during the interfaith services we had regularly over a year (I’m a part-time musician, while my bread and adult training has always been social work – mainly Children and families assessment Work for social services but I’ve also worked with development aid in west Africa, mental Health etc.).
Through Together for Sweden I became member of the interfaith council for Peace in Stockholm whose main purpose was to organize the UN initiated Interfaith harmony week.
My children are 10, 8 and 3. Myself I’ve got one younger brother.