Community Scholarship recipient, Mereti Kaisuva

UWS Community Scholarships - Mereti Kaisuva

 

Mereti Kaisuva, resident of Casula, is in her first year of the Bachelor of Social Science at the Bankstown campus.

Her family migrated from Fiji to Australia where Mereti completed her schooling.  After year 12, Mereti enrolled in a nursing degree and completed a few units but decided that she wanted to do something to help the Indigenous Australian Community, following in her father’s footsteps who worked at Indigenous schools in Kempsie and in rural NSW.

“Helping the Aboriginal people is my passion and my goal is to work to make them a priority, not a minority.”

Mereti decided to study at UWS because Bankstown is close to where she lives. She has a seven year old daughter and the small distance to travel makes is easy to pick her daughter up from school.

The scholarship has already helped her get ahead for the second semester as it has helped her to buy her textbooks and other related study materials.

“I’m just so very, very thankful that I can be like others. I can afford to buy books and not be ashamed that I might have to ask for financial assistance.”

“I have no excuse not to continue to study so I can, in turn, help others.”

 

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