Tee Tee Luce, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Tee Tee Luce

Burmese philanthropist

Date of Birth: 19-Jul-1895

Place of Birth: Insein Township, Yangon Region, Myanmar

Date of Death: 09-Sep-1982

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Tee Tee Luce

  • Tee Tee Luce was a Burmese philanthropist and wife of Gordon Luce, a Burma scholar.
  • Tee Tee married Luce, a close friend of her brother Pe Maung Tin, also a Burma scholar, on 20 April 1915.
  • She was a founding member of the Children's Aid and Protection Society.
  • On 1 September 1928, Daw Tee Tee founded Home for Waifs and Strays, an orphanage and school for destitute boys on 114 Inya Road in Rangoon, on land owned by businessman U Ba Oh.
  • The Home eventually served 6,000 boys and secured funding from UNESCO.
  • She won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for public service in 1959.
  • In 1964, soon after Ne Win's coup d'état, she and her husband were forced out of Burma.
  • They settled in Jersey, in the Channel Islands.

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