I am the 10th of 10 children and I was born near Magway in a rural village of farmers. We farm peanuts, rice and sesame and we have a cow to grind the sesame oil.

I left school aged 12 to support my family and have had many jobs including selling flowers, construction work, photocopy shop, rickshaw bicycle rider, chef for 50 Buddhist monks when I lived in a monastery, a tour guide when I slept in the luggage hold of the bus and, most recently, housekeeping in 5* hotels in Burma and Bath. 

I hope the revolution against the military junta succeeds to bring freedom and democracy to my country and then I can return to visit my family, who I continue to support by working in the UK.

Any customer is welcome to visit my home – a canal boat which is moored in and around Bath.