As many of you know, normally, profits from The Chai Lai Orchid, our vocational training program and elephant rescue, fund Daughters Rising’s scholarship program for ethnic minority women. However the pandemic has decimated the tourism industry in Thailand, and consequently these scholarships are also at risk of collapse.

The incredible young women we support are all refugees from Myanmar and have overcome incredible adversity to pursue higher education, ad we can’t fathom having to tell them they can’t continue their studies.

So in light of the enormous obstacles that Daughters Rising is currently facing, we are launching an online art auction as a fundraiser for our scholarship program. Our community of incredible artists have stepped up to the challenge and have generously donated amazing work to the case.

If you can, please consider either collecting a work or helping promote the auction via social media-- Help keep our students in school!