<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">I am writing to you to seek some useful </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">volunteer work for a period of 6-10 weeks at the end of this year, from late November </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">until lunar new year 2015.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">I am a very experienced Occupational Therapist, now retired. </span><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">I have worked extensively in rehabilitation and later specialised in </span><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">designing and making individualised pieces of equipment for special needs </span><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">for ten years in Melbourne see </span><a href="http://www.solve.org.au/" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">http://www.solve.org.au/</a><div>
<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#0000ff">*Solve Disability Solutions** (formerly TADVIC)* is a not-for-profit</font></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#0000ff">organisation that makes and modifies equipment for people with disabilities</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#0000ff">whose needs cannot be met commercially.</font></span></div>
</blockquote><div>I managed this small voluntary organisation for ten years. <span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">We always made equipment from simple materials at low cost which should be</span><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">a useful skill for most disability services who always have few resources.</span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"> I am lucky to have </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">two very good Vietnamese friends living in Ho Chi Minh City, whom I met </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"> when they were studying in Melbourne, Australia. </span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">I have visited </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">Vietnam 3 times in the last 18 months and travelled with my friends and</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">their families. This is one of the reasons I hope to work in HCMC or </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">nearby, as I have enjoyed my visits and I will have friends to share time </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">with outside working hours.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">I am very happy to correspondwith any NGO contacts where my skills could be</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">useful.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">Sincerely</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">Ms Martie Lowenstein / Ms Martie Nash</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">Melbourne, Australia</font><br><br>
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