A group of prisoners serving life sentences has established a fund to help victims of crime set up healing programs. The Candace Derksen Fund is named after a 13-year-old Winnipeg girl who was murdered in 1984.
"It is a miracle that it [the fund] even exists," said Wilma Derksen, mother of Candace and head of Victims' Voice for Mennonite Central Committee Canada. It captures all of the intricacies of the journey from violence to healing and forgiveness, she said.
The inspiration for the fund came from Rene Durocher who spent 23 years in jail for bank robbery and is currently the national director of Life Line--a program of the John Howard Society which works with …
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