Recipient of the 2007 Women of Vision for Leadership. Born in Saigon, South Vietnam, in 1962, she fled to the US with no father and a family of nine in 1975, eventually settling in Houston. Although Le knew no English on her arrival, she mastered the language fast enough to graduate from Alief Hastings High School at 16 as Valedictorian of her class of 335 students. In 1976, she received her first recognition in the US as 'Citizen of the Month' from Kiwanis International Club. In 1981, Houston Chronicle featured her as 'Scholastic Wonder', and Duy-Loan also received commendation from The Office of The Ambassador of The Royal Netherlands for her scholastic achievement and her humanitarian effort in fund raising to aid the Vietnamese refugees. She participates in numerous charity and fund raising projects for colleges, orphanages, and charity foundations. Duy-Loan serves on the Board of two non-profit organizations which promote education and support social economic development projects in the third world. Duy-Loan has worked to advance education and learning conditions in Vietnam. She believes that by doing so, the environment for learning will produce more students who will be able to improve the overall state of Vietnam. She recently achieved her longtime dream of bringing soundly-built school facilities to rural Vietnam with the opening of Thanh Thoi B—a schoolhouse accommodating 120 elementary-age students—whose construction she played a leadership role in implementing ...
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