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The Prostheses Foundation of H.R.H. The Princess Mother would like to thank
you for your good |
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deed
and being one part of the society in helping to fulfill the poor amputees to
be able to stand for |
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their lives and also improving the quality of their lives. The amputees
would not be any burden to |
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the
society and they were able to walk again. For the donated aluminium such as
different kinds of |
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refreshment can’s lid, nourishment’s lid (Brand lid), powder casket lid,
drinking water lid which |
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are
made from aluminium, soft drink can, beer can, old pan or aluminium pot and
other trash of |
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aluminium except coffee can and different kinds of
milk can which some parts are made from iron |
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can
not be used. |
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These mentioned aluminium above will be brought to melt as the materials and
components for |
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making artificial legs as these following: |
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1. Coupling:
it is on alignment apparatus in order that the artificial leg will be
attached with the shank. |
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2. Socket
attachment: it is a nut for attaching the socket with coupling and alignment
apparatus. |
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3. Artificial
hip joint: for hip disarticulation amputees. |
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4. Cane: for general elderly people and Forearm crutch for amputees
who still have not got the |
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artificial legs yet. |
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5. Walker:
for elderly people who have not got the artificial legs and for the primary
patients who |
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have not the stability in walking. |
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6. Nut, bolt and screw: will help to attach coupling and alignment
apparatus. |
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Nowadays, The Prostheses Foundation received many of donated aluminium from
inside and |
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outside country. This caused the problem in keeping aluminium because we
don’t have enough |
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places so it is our financial problem. We have to rent the places to keep
these aluminium, hire |
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people to separate different trash of aluminium. We also have to hire the
melting factory to melt |
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these trash aluminium to aluminium bars and we have to find the warehouse to
keep these |
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aluminium. To solve these problems, The Prostheses Foundation’s committees
had the conclusion |
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to bring these aluminium to be traded with the good grade aluminium similar
with the grades of |
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producing cars which are very strong and durable and can load the weight
very well. We brought |
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these good aluminium to be the aluminium components which are very strong
when we want to |
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produce the components. We will sell all leftovers aluminium when we don’t
want to produce the |
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components so we don’t have to pay the rent for keeping aluminium, the wages
for melting and |
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the warehouse’s rent for keeping the melted aluminium. The Prostheses
Foundation will get |
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money in order to make artificial legs for poor amputees regardless of
nationality or religion so |
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this would help amputees to have the artificial legs more widely. |
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One artificial leg will consist of the 10-20% of aluminium the rest of
80-90% will make from |
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different kinds of plastic such as the plastic socket, artificial knee
joint, shank and SACH foot. |
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The Prostheses Foundation will have to buy all these plastics and it seems
that the price of plastic |
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is going up continuously. If you are inconvenient to send aluminium, you can
sell the collected |
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aluminium to the shops which buy the old things ones and then you can
transfer money to our |
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saving account as these following details: |
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Account name: “ The
Prostheses Foundation
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1. Thai Commercial Bank, Chit Lom branch, Account number: 001-4-76000-8 |
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2. Thai Commercial Bank, Medical Department branch, Chiangmai, Account
number: |
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566-2-50375-3 |
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3. Thai Farmers Bank, Suthep Rd. branch, Account number: 471-2-02394-0 |
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4. Bangkok Bank, Suthep Rd. branch, Account number: 504-0-15260-4 |
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Then The Prostheses Foundation will use this money for the poor amputees as
follow as our |
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objectives later. |
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