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Green fingers point to a healthier future for Chiang Rai's hill tribe kids

News, Anucha Charoenpo, Published on 01/09/2019

» CHIANG RAI: Waking up early for school is difficult for most kids but not this 13-year-old ethnic Akha girl. Mallika Sae-lee, a 6th-grade student at Ban Ruam Jai School in tambon Pa Tung of Mae Chan district of Chiang Rai, arrives early every day to take care of a vegetable patch before her school's morning recitation of the national anthem.