Sponsor Update Pokpong

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Pokpong is a Lahu boy from the village of Mae Sae Koaw. His parents work as general farm laborers. He is one of eight children with two brothers and five sisters.

Pokpong is crazy about sports, which is good when you are the seventh of eight kids in a really poor house where food is in short supply and it is easy to get pushed aside at the pot.

Recently, Pokpong’s family broke up and he and his youngest brother have been living with their elderly grandmother in the Lahu village of Mae Sai Koaw on the mountain ridge far above Phrao.

Grandma is too poor to send the boys to school so Warm Heart supported them at Tong Roong School.

As a seventh grader, Pokpong moved to Warm Heart.

He is an active member of its Warm Heart football (soccer) team and an avid ping pong player.

He spent the summer break working at Warm Heart on the biochar project and helping around the farm. Some of the money he earned went to help pay for his brother’s school uniforms.

He wants to go to university someday, but for now, he says he’s learning too much to decide.

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Age: 16

Grade: 10th

Recent Report Card

With a strong encouragement, Pokpong completed 9^th grade and started in the vocational track at Phrao High School.

He did not have the confidence to think he could make it to high school and tried to give up a few times.  Some of our older boys as well as staff pushed him to finish his last assignments and he was accepted at the high school.

The term started late, in July, but worked on the biochar production until school started. He seems happy and willing to get his work completed to stay in school. We are delighted that he persevered and has raised his aspirations.

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