Lahpai Seng Raw

Seng Raw earned a degree in psychology from Rangoon University; she began working with internally displaced people along the Myanmar-China border from 1987 to 1997. During that period, she became the development officer-in-charge in Kachin Independence Organization's humanitarian wing (ROKA).^[8][9] In 1997, she started the Metta Development Foundation, a non-government organization that helps displaced people of war afflicted zones in the country.