About Us

For many families in the mountains of Northern Thailand, life is a quiet agony. The daily reality is a crushing poverty that suffocates hope, where the most fundamental needs—enough food for your children, a cup of clean water—are not guaranteed. This desperation forces families to make choices that are unimaginable to the outside world. To survive, some are driven to sell a child to wealthy families or, even worse, into the sex trade, exchanging a life for the money needed to feed the rest.
 

From this profound hardship, a tragic "culture of sacrifice" has emerged. It is an unspoken, heartbreaking understanding that one person, usually a young woman, must leave the village for cities like Bangkok or even foreign countries. There, she will enter sex work, sending every dollar she earns back home. Her sacrifice becomes the family's only lifeline, the price she pays so her siblings can eat and her parents can have medicine. This is not a choice made freely; it is a sentence handed down by poverty.
 

While it is true that in recent years, some hill tribe people have gained access to Thai ID cards and a chance at education, this has done little to erase the deep-seated poverty that defines their existence. Even with papers, they are seen as outsiders, pushed to the absolute margins of society. They are trapped in a cycle of low-income labor, working grueling hours on farms or construction sites for wages that are barely enough to live on, with no real hope for a better future.
 

These are the people of the Karen, Hmong, Akha, and Lisu (Lisaw) tribes. They are proud communities with rich traditions and a deep spiritual connection to the mountains they call home. But their beautiful culture is overshadowed by a constant struggle against a system that has left them behind.
 

Your purchase is a direct intervention in this cycle of despair. It provides dignified work and a fair wage, offering a young woman an alternative to sacrificing her body. It gives a father an honorable way to provide for his family without having to make an impossible choice. Each piece of jade we sell is a step away from that darkness, helping to ensure that a family can stay whole and a culture can survive with its dignity intact. You are not just buying a stone; you are offering a different path—one of hope.