Helping Others

Students admired and wanted to learn from her, so she recruited Hmong girls and taught them. This opened a new way for Hmong girls to be educated.  

Because of Choua Thao society saw that Hmong girls do and have a right to go to school and get educated. Hmong elders later saw that going to school won’t turn someone into a lazy person or become a prostitute. There were some Hmong elders that didn't support this, but she just ignored them. She served South Vietnam and U.S. for many years. She got invited to Washington D.C. by President Reagan to represent the Asian-Americans.  

She arrived to America at the age of 32 and with 6 children and continued to go to school to learn more.  On, April 15, 1976 arrived in Waupun, Wisconsin with her husband and 6 kids. She gave multiple interviews and told children to go to school because school will help you out in the future and it can change your life, just like how it changed hers. Going to school, helped her to become a nurse, and to come America. She is still alive now and lives in America. She is serving in the health department. Now Hmong girls can and are encouraged to go to school and become anyone and do anything. 

Now in 2020 Hmong women get treated the same as Hmong men. They can each go to school and get an education. Hmong women can have the same status as Hmong men in public. Hmong men also stay home now and babysit the children while Hmong women go to their job and work.