Tee Tee Luce was an award-winning Burmese philanthropist and wife of Gordon Luce, a Burmese colonial scholar.
Tee Tee married her brother's close friend Gordon Luce, a Burmese 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

Inya Lake

Inya Lake is the largest lake in Yangon, Burma , a popular recreational area for Yangonites, and a famous location for romance in popular culture...

 in Rangoon, on land owned by businessman U Ba Oh. The Home eventually served 6,000 boys and secured funding from UNESCO

UNESCO

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. She won the Ramon Magsaysay Award

Ramon Magsaysay Award

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 for public service in 1959. In 1964, soon after Ne Win

Ne Win

Ne Win was Burmese a politician and military commander. He was Prime Minister of Burma from 1958 to 1960 and 1962 to 1974 and also head of state from 1962 to 1981...

's coup d'état, she and her husband were forced out of Burma. They settled in Jersey

Jersey

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, in the Channel Islands.