The journey that led me home

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"I spent most of my adult life in Human Resources, starting in five star hotels where I learned what it means to build systems around people and still try to keep their humanity intact. Over the years, I worked my way up to become an HR Director in Bangkok, and eventually joined UN Women, recruiting experts across Asia and the Pacific.

 

It was meaningful work. I was proud of it. But somewhere along the way, I started to feel a quiet pull, a sense that while I was helping from afar, I was no longer close to the people whose lives I wanted to change. I grew up in a small rubber tapping village in Trang, and I could not forget the faces of the children there who still carry too much responsibility and too little hope.

 

So I went home. I left the city, built a bamboo hut on my family’s land, and began again. Together with my husband, we started the Lorliang Cheewa Foundation, which means nurturing life. Our goal is simple, to give rural children what poverty often steals first, the belief that their lives can be different.

 

At a small village school, we run the Dare to Dream program, helping kids understand their feelings, build confidence, and imagine their future with curiosity rather than fear. Some of them now study at free quality boarding schools in other provinces, a chance that truly changes everything.

 

Around us stretch endless plantations that rely on chemical fertilizers, but on our small piece of land, we are growing a food forest instead, a place that feeds both body and soul. The neighbors think we are a bit crazy. Maybe we are. But for the first time, life feels deeply aligned with what matters most."

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