This scholarship is available to Australian medical and dental students. It has been provided by generous donations of Christian doctors and Zimbabwean medical students and their families, through the organisation Hope Zimbabwe in conjunction with HealthServe Australia. The aim of the scholarship is to strengthen relationships between Australian and Zimbabwean medical and dental students and provide Australian students with an opportunity to learn about diseases of poverty like HIV/AIDS and grow spiritually.
The scholarship is able to be taken over any 4-8 week period within the year in which it is awarded. It is not a requirement of the scholarship that it be counted towards the student’s medical studies, however students may use the scholarship to facilitate an overseas placement as an elective, provided all university requirements are filled. Regardless of when it is taken, the recipient of the scholarship will spend a large proportion of their time in health clinics and medical facilities in Zimbabwe, and is expected to work alongside local staff as they learn about local healthcare provision in Zimbabwe.
Please download the scholarship form here: HOPE Zim Scholarship form 2011
Check out a testimony by Nadia Fretze who went to Zimbabwe as an Australian medical student: Rivers of Healing and Hope