About Prateep Ungsongtham Hata
Prateep Ungsongtham Hata (Thai: ประทีป อึ้งทรงธรรม ฮาตะ; RTGS: Prathip Uengsongtham; born 9 August 1952) is a Thai activist noted for her work with slum dwellers in the Khlong Toei District of Bangkok, Thailand. Among her supporters, she is known as Khru Prateep ("Teacher Prateep"), the "Angel of Khlong Toei" or "Slum Angel". She was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service in 1978, founded and became the Secretary General of the Duang Prateep Foundation. She was one of the leaders of the 1992 oppositional movement. In 2000, she was elected to the Senate, representing Bangkok. == Life == Prateep Ungsongtham was born in a slum in Bangkok's Klong Toei district. Her father was a fisherman emigrated from China, her mother was Thai. As her parents lived in an illegally erected home, she had no birth certificate and was denied admission to a public school. For four years, she could visit a relatively cheap private school. She had to drop out when she was 12 years old and her parents ran out of money.
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