Powered by passion and a dream
Ms Caroline Pule, PhD Student in Molecular Biology, is a talented young
women who is not only a succesful student, she is also actively giving
back to the community and caring for the environment.
Pule won best poster presentation as well as the feedback prize at the
2015 TB Summit for her poster presentation entitled “The role of efflux
pump inhibitors on first and second line anti-TB drugs in rifampicin
mono resistant clinical isotates of mycobacteirum tuberculosis”. She
attended the summit, organised by Euroscicon in London in March this
year, on a Whitehead Scientific travelling award. These bursaries are
offered to researchers in life sciences to attend scientific
conferences, meetings or laboratories.
Pule describes herself as a young giver who is passionate about
philantrophy. She dreams of having a purposeful live givingback to her
country. She realised early in her life that education is the key to
success. “This made me realise that I can contribute to the community
through improving literacy and science education, hence I founded the
Caroline Pule Science and Literacy Foundation, to help those who didn’t
get the same opportunities as me,” she says. Through her foundation,
Pule aims to establish science clubs in disadvantaged communities and
distribute scientific literature to these communities.
Pule occupies leadership positions in multiple organisations which
focus on amongst others , tuberculosis eradication, women in science,
leadership and community development.
She is a committee member of the Association of South African Women in
Science and Engineering (SAWISE), the Western Cape Branch of the South
African Associates Women Graduates (SAAWG), and has currently been
appointed as an Ambassador of the South African National Tuberculosis
Association (SANTA).
As SANTA Ambassador, Pule has rendered multiple oral presentations at
various meetings highlihting the importance of working together as TB
research funders, scientists, phamaceuticals, clinicians, health care
workers and volunteer community health workers to fight and eradicate TB
in order to build a healthy nation.
Pule is also an environmentalist and was a semi-finalist in the Miss
Earth SA competition. This programme aims to empower young South
African women with the knowledge and platform to enhance sustainability
in the country.
shared article link: http://www0.sun.ac.za/vivus/3-august-2015/engagement/powered-by-passion-and-a-dream.html
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