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This is a true story based on a wonderful experience lived as a volunteer, working as an English teacher with Sapao Chau, where I met Sutan, a heroine, the founder of Sapao Chau.

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Sutan, the Vietnamese dreamer. In a very far, far away country called Vietnam, a very gentle and sweet girl called Sutan lived with her family in a very poor hamlet situated in the northern Vietnam near the city of Sapa.

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Here we can see Sapa, near the border of China.

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Rice. Rice fields in Sapa.

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Sapa is a very touristic place because there are many mountains and it is very beautiful.

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In the mountains there are trees, there are forests of bamboo and lots of rice fields.

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The landscape is very stunning. Lovers of trekking and climbing go there to enjoy the view and the homestays. Here we can see a rice field and a buffalo, bamboo trees and terraces of rice fields.

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Sutan couldn't get an education. Her family was very poor. They could not afford to send her to school. She belonged to an etnia called Hmong people.

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In Northern Vienna there are many different etnias. Each etnia has its own language, culture and they wear different clothes.

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There is something they have in common. They all are very poor and work very hard to survive in the rice fields, looking after their buffaloes and making lots of handicrafts to sell in Sapa.

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Sutan remembers very well her childhood. She used to go to Sapa with her parents

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to sell little books, bed covers and many other things. The Vietnamese laughed at

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her and her people because they were poor and illiterate. She had a dream offer

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her people the opportunity to get an education and choice for their future.

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This is a girl which belongs to Hmong people. This is the Saturday market in Sapa. These are three women. They belong to Hmong people and they work as tourist guides for tourists in the mountains.

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In Sapa you can see buffaloes in the streets.

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Vietnamese always carry an umbrella to avoid getting sun-tanned.

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She worked very hard as a tourist guide for an agency.

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She taught herself how to read and write and speak English, to communicate with people from all over the world who wanted to visit the beautiful mountains of Sapa.

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Here we can see the beautiful mountains of Sapa.

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She managed to create her own agency and make her dream come true with the help of other volunteers.

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they provide the possibility to attend school and learn English to have choice

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when they grow up and leave their villages and poverty. Here we can see the

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children of Sapautau with volunteers. This is the classroom where they attend

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lessons and they are learning songs with a volunteer from Australia called Kelly

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and she played the ukulele and taught them lots of songs and this is the end

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of Sutan the Vietnamese dreamer