Update on Beneficiaries and Messages of Support

Mrs Nawaal Arendse (nee Sakier)

2011 – I am Mrs Nawaal Arendse (nee Sakier) graduated B.Sc. Occupational Therapy in 2012 and have recently completed and submitted my Master’s thesis for M.Sc. Occupational Therapy awaiting examination results. My Master’s thesis is titled: Mental Health Care Users’ perceptions and experiences of community re-integration in the Digatlong sub-district. 

I have worked in the Northern Cape for the past 8 years at Prof ZK Matthews hospital in the Dikgatlong sub-district. I live in Kimberley, am now married for 4 years with an inquisitive 2-year-old daughter. 

Apologies for not being able to attend the event. I wish the Trust well and further strength with all your future endeavours. 

2014 – Amy Booth Message of Support: 

It was such an honour to receive an invitation to the Dr Aadil Moerat Medical Bursary Trust launch. It is unfortunate that I am unable to attend as I am not currently based in South Africa, but I would like to extend my support on to the Trustees. I can remember reading, with intrigue, about the Bursary, in 2014, which aimed to award applicants who showed involvement in community work, had merit and motivation and needed financial support. I managed to drudge up my application for the award, and looking back on it, it is incredible to see how I have matured and changed as a human being since I submitted that application and am grateful for the role that the Bursary played in this. I wrote in my application that “I intend to do my utmost to make a difference” and that through “innovation and individual commitment, we can achieve great things” and these sentiments have not changed. I believe that this is what the Dr Aadil Moerat Bursary aims to nurture – this enduring commitment of young people towards working towards a better country and a better world. I am so grateful for the support of the Bursary in my early career, where as a student on NSFAS, finances were an issue, and every assistance in this regard was a blessing. I have now left clinical medicine to pursue a PhD, on a Rhodes Scholarship, at the University of Oxford. My research is on the contribution of health systems to climate change and how we can embed environmental sustainability into health care – this switch in my career came as a result of a realisation that both people and the planet need caring for, that we can’t have good human health without a healthy planet, and my desire to play at least a small part in contributing to the health of both. I wish the Trustees of the Dr Aadil Moerat Bursary everything of the best as they continue to support young people in their quest to stand up for the world and would like to once again, express my gratitude for the opportunity they provided me all those years ago. May your work continue to endure.  

From Patricia Coates and Carin Matz 

We were pleased to be founders and long-serving members of the Dr Aadil Moerat Medical Bursary Fund.

It is gratifying that it continues. The Trust will perpetuate the memory of Dr Moerat and his ideals. It pays tribute to him.

It is good news that the fund is now a registered trust; the larger fund with wider penetration that Mr M. N. Moerat envisaged makes headway. 

Our thanks to founder chairperson Mr B. B. Isaacs – always a fine and supportive leader.

Our best wishes for the future.