2023 Donor Impact Report - Flipbook - Page 16
Scholarships and Grants
Supporting Aboriginal
students in tertiary education
For the past 19 years, a devoted group of supporters has
given more than $1.6M to the Gavin Wanganeen Aboriginal
Scholarship – highlighting its importance to donors and
value to students.
huge for all students, but particularly for
Aboriginal students. I am so grateful for your
support. Sometimes, a scholarship means
everything,” says Hayley Kurray, Scholarship
recipient and a Bachelor of Laboratory
Medicine (Honours) student.
Left: Hayley Kurray,
scholarship recipient
Right: Kate Brake
(right) with her
daughter, Naomi
Mullins, at the 2022
Alumni Awards
Gifts from more than 600 people and
organisations have helped more than 60
Aboriginal students to benefit from this
scholarship, with graduates now working
in law, medical sonography, occupational
therapy, and accounting, plus many other
essential occupations.
In 2022, we awarded the Gavin
Wanganeen MBA Scholarship for the
first time in an arrangement that will
completely waive the recipients’ MBA
course fees.
Gavin Wanganeen
(left) with
UniSA staff and
scholarship
recipients
“Receiving a scholarship helps to build a
more confident person, a more empowered
person, and a more secure student. This is
We want to share our most sincere
appreciation to everyone who donates to
this scholarship – many who continue to
give every year. Your loyalty is noticed and
sincerely appreciated by the University and,
most importantly, the students who benefit
from your generosity.
One donor is Kate Brake, an alumna and
former UniSA staff member, who has
donated to the Gavin Wangaeen Aboriginal
Scholarship almost every year since its
inception. In 2022 Kate established the Brake
Family Refugee Grant in 2022 to support
students from a refugee background.
“My life has not included suffering from
oppression, prejudice, poverty or lack of
opportunity. I have never had to flee my
country and all I have known in order to
survive. These are the reasons I donate
to people whose lives have not been so
fortunate,” says Kate.
“Football has given me some wonderful opportunities in my life, a
strong sense of achievement and an understanding that role models
can make a difference in people’s lives. I believe Aboriginal kids need a
range of role models – some in sport but also teachers, business leaders,
nurses, researchers and others. The Gavin Wanganeen Aboriginal
Scholarship aims to assist more Aboriginal students to attend university
so they can contribute by becoming leaders in Australia and good
examples for Aboriginal children across the country,” Gavin Wanganeen.
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