YUM STUDIO - Key Persons

Mrs Ly May Chan, the women's leader of the village, has taken Ly Lo May under her wing. The two women speak together often about how to protect their culture, their village, and also support young people to be happy to stay in school and in the village. Ly Lo May is walking the tightrope between cultures. She has a phone, email address, rides a motorbike, deals with the results of other's drug addition and uses Western gestures. She wears traditional clothing that took her two years to make, she embroiders, she understudies to be the next women's leader, she guides tourists through Red Dao traditions and works to support herself and her family. And she is passionate about getting a world education and is likely now in Canada doing just that.