[bksvol-discuss] Re: Sad to be leaving
- From: "Pavi Mehta" <pavim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:31:15 -0700
Dear Lea,
Thanks for writing in about your upcoming move to the UK. We deeply
appreciate your work as a proofreader over the last four years --- much
gratitude for all those pages you waded through with patience. I just
wanted to clarify that if you are still a permanent resident of the
United States (in terms of legal status), you can continue to volunteer
with Bookshare even while living abroad.
Safe travels and best wishes for this new chapter you are about to
embark on.
Warm regards,
Pavi
Pavi Mehta
Volunteer Coordinator, Bookshare
Benetech
480 S. California Ave., Suite 201
Palo Alto, CA 94306-1609 USA
Phone: +1 650 644-3459
pavim@xxxxxxxxxxxx
www.benetech.org
The Benetech Initiative - Technology Serving Humanity
A Nonprofit Organization
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pascha Lea
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 9:04 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Sad to be leaving
Hello all,
Not many of you know me, but a few of you do. My name is Lea, and I've
been volunteering with Bookshare for 4 years now as a validator.
Unfortunately, my time here is coming to an end. My husband and I are
going to be moving overseas in 6 weeks, and I don't think I can
volunteer as a validator for Bookshare while I'm resident in a foreign
country.
I've really enjoyed my time with Bookshare immensely. As a sighted
person, I concentrated on validating text books and some of the more
difficult books. Yes, some of them were intensely boring, but I also
learned a lot from reading books I wouldn't normally pick up. I hope
most of my work was accurate - I would not validate a book if I couldn't
get a hard-copy of it.
I'm moving to the UK, and I wish there was a project like this available
for those with vision impairments or other reading disabilities. My
husband is blind and I have always felt strongly that he should have
just as much access to written material as I do.
Although I have not been active in posting to this group, I have been
lurking for the past 4 years in order to keep myself up-to-date with
changes, etc. I will miss reading all of the lively discussion and I
hope that Bookshare continues to leap ahead. Bookshare certainly has one
of the most dedicated volunteer forces I've ever seen!
Best wishes to everyone.
Lea Turkington
(who has validated 119 book during the past 4 years)
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