Buga, or "Boo" as her friends call her, is a 10-year-old girl living in a remote mountaintop village in northern Laos. Boo's family, like others in her village, are subsistence farmers and have very little cash income. Tradition has in the past kept women and girls from interacting with others or going outside the domestic sphere.

With support from Church World Service and One Great Hour of Sharing, Boo’s village now has its first school, which the villagers helped build themselves. When Boo says she wants to be a doctor, there are smiles and sounds of encouragement from a crowd of adults surrounding the school. Boo's village has no doctor or medical clinic and the mortality rate is very high – a homegrown doctor would make a world of difference to her community.