Coming from Kien Giang province, Ms Loan came to HCM city to establish her business and she decided to apprentice to a hairdresser to make her living. After years of apprenticeship in hairshops, she accumulated many experiences and capital to set up her own hairshop. In 2002, she was introduced to work in TLS as a hairdressing teacher for the disadvantaged children in District 4, where she is living.

Her students are little girls aged between 14 and 19. They all come from families at the bottom of the society in District 4. At first, she only took one class with 12 and 14 students and came to the school two days a week. Until 2005, due to the increased enrollment, she doubled her working days with more students between 18 - 20 per class.

From the work of a normal hairdresser to the hairshop owner and now a vocational teacher training three skills: hair, nails, and makeup, she has to compile the curriculum and lesson plans carefully. She instructs her students with all of her skills and knowledge of a beautician in class. She has them take notes and a great deal of practice.

Students become models for practising skills of hair, nails, and makeup. Once in a while, neighbouring housewives and the school staff enter the beauty classroom for free service. This is a good opportunity for students to show their talent.

Beauty service is popular and various in District 4. They are from expensive salons on the streetfront to small cheap ones in alleys. Consequently, the demand of employing hairdressers is quite high. Until now, Ms Loan has placed approximately 50 graduates of her courses in hairshops in the District. Their average earnings from 900.000d to 1.000.000d per month is quite decent and stable for girls who don’t have high education.

After years of teaching, she is very sympathetic with the students' poverty lives. She also realized the necessity to train a cheap and less time consuming vocation to children of indigent families who can't afford to get up to an academic schooling. She trains her students with the severity of a teacher and the love of a mother nursing her children. She is full of the joys of spring when she finds them making progress and when they have paid employment. Several former students with jobs and income sometimes return to school to see her. They tell her practical experience they have undergone at their working places; the tips they get for their good work and even the complaints of hard- to- please customers. She listens to them, analyzes the matter and give them her advice to encourage them to improve their professional skills and hold on to their jobs.

In the summer of 2006, she took a small group of students to her hometown in Kien Giang province. The purpose of the trip was both relaxing and practising skills learnt at school. They were very delighted to offer free hair service to children and rural women who were often reluctant to go to hairshops in fear of high cost.

Recently as a consequence of the assistance of Henkel company which produces hair products, she has accompanied a large number of her students to the beauty salon of the company for higher training.

Thanks to her devotion, plenty of needy adolescents are skillful with the job and they can live on themselves.

She is a typical success out of the teaching staff of TLS.