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| Mushrooming the business (Sarina Locke) |
Thursday, 07/07/2011
By Sarina Locke from Murrumbateman 2582
ABC Rural (Australia)
“I survived through the war by eating caterpillars, I survived through the war by eating cockroaches.”
“We were forced to come out (to Australia), if not we get raped or killed. “
Helen Chu is not angry or bitter, but she does carry the mental scars of seeing Khmer Rouge soldiers torture and murder friends and family.
She was lucky enough to arrive in Australia as a child and to benefit from a good education, despite her experience of racism in Cabramatta, Sydney.
She attended University, became a teacher and then five years ago, bought land at Murrumbateman to establish a sophisticated mushroom farm, selling to Canberra consumers.
Helen Chu was born Heang Pao, but she doesn’t know her exact date of birth, as the documents were destroyed before she arrived in Australia in 1982.
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