Ten Years, Ten Women: Duang

Duang joined Better Me for Women, working in restaurant service and, by her own description, moving through her days without much sense of where her life was actually headed. What stayed with her most wasn't a single skill but a shift in vigilance: understanding personal safety, recognizing risk before it becomes a crisis, and thinking clearly in a world where she says violence, crime, and online threats show up more often than most people are prepared for.

She's not just a graduate of the program today. She's a Project Coordinator on PND's own team, working inside the organization that trained her a decade ago.

Duang's path, from restaurant worker to participant to coordinator, is a different kind of evidence than a satisfaction score. It says something about how much the organization came to trust what she'd become, and how much she trusted it enough to build a career inside it.

Ten years in, this is one of the clearest signs that Better Me for Women isn't only teaching a workshop. It's building people the foundation can actually rely on.