Tan LeTan Le was born in Vietnam on the 20th of may 1977 she lived in Vietnam for 3 years she came to Australia on a boat that measured 15 metres by 4 metres it was dark, misty and fearful there were 161 people on the boat, she came with her mother and sister the reason they left was because feared for their future her mother and because of the terrible war that was happening over their. Mai Ho was terrified of getting shot by pirates, finally when they reached land they had to spend 3 months in a refugee camp in Malaysia after the 3 months at the refugee camp they got on plane and came to Australia she was only 4 when she came here.
At the age of 16 (she got in at a younger age because she was so hard working) she started studing a double degree in laws and commerence at the Monarsh University in a Melbourne she recieved a KPMG schoolar ship for academic achievment. About a year after she started realising that how hard it is for refugee communty to find work Tan Le started to devote herself to Australian Vietnamese resource centre at the age of 18 she had become the president of it and in those 3 years she helped bulid it up to what it is now. In 1998 she was appointed Australian Youth Embassador to Asia. In the same year she recived young Australian of the Year and now has a documentry of her she is even on Australia Most Successful women under 30.
In 2000 she cofounded a company with other young people from overseas she helped make a SASme into one of the leading wireless technology companys providers in Australia and operations in Europe and in Asia
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