President
Pennies for Papa
A gleaming light of hope for the forgotten people ofThailand
President of the Pennies for Papa Foundation …
Phimprapha Muelae is an advocate for all Thai people who seek a better life. She has a passion for social and economic change for poor Thai communities. Phimprapha’s experiences and life’s challenges are an example of how education and the study of the English language combined with access to information, can empower the poor and marginalized.
Phimphrapa was born without medical assistance in a homemade bamboo hut in anAkha Village
in Burma .
She was carried across the Thai Burma border as an infant by her Papa to flee
oppression. Her family struggled for many years to become citizens of Thailand
… At age fourteen, Phimprapha was the first generation of the Akha Hill Tribe
to be allowed Thai public school.
She completed five years and learned to speak Thai... Phimphrapa is the product of two very diverse worlds, living her formative years in an Akha village in northern Thailand and at twenty two, migrating to the city of Chiang Mai in search of work to aid her aging parents... While living in the city, she enrolled in English classes. This education led her to the path way to be the founder of the Pennies for Papa Foundation. She embodies the courage to push beyond the life her ancestors had resigned themselves to; poverty, slave labor, drugs, prostitution, and worst of all hopelessness. From personal experience, she knows that through education, the marginalized people ofThailand
can work their way to a better life, filled with opportunity and
promise...
Pennies for Papa
A gleaming light of hope for the forgotten people of
Phimprapha Muelae is an advocate for all Thai people who seek a better life. She has a passion for social and economic change for poor Thai communities. Phimprapha’s experiences and life’s challenges are an example of how education and the study of the English language combined with access to information, can empower the poor and marginalized.
Phimphrapa was born without medical assistance in a homemade bamboo hut in an
She completed five years and learned to speak Thai... Phimphrapa is the product of two very diverse worlds, living her formative years in an Akha village in northern Thailand and at twenty two, migrating to the city of Chiang Mai in search of work to aid her aging parents... While living in the city, she enrolled in English classes. This education led her to the path way to be the founder of the Pennies for Papa Foundation. She embodies the courage to push beyond the life her ancestors had resigned themselves to; poverty, slave labor, drugs, prostitution, and worst of all hopelessness. From personal experience, she knows that through education, the marginalized people of
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