Lò Thị Tím, from the northern mountainous province of Điện Biên, has devoted her life to SOS Children's Village, saying that she was absolutely right in choosing this humanitarian job.
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Because of her upbringing in a poor rural area, she understands and sympathises with poor people and wanted to help them in her career.