[1] She was a founding member of the Children's Aid and Protection Society.
[2] 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.
[3][4][5] The Home eventually served 6,000 boys and secured funding from UNESCO.
[5] 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.