The Warrnambool founding family helping healthcare stay rural
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Lucia Camera (BNurs ’12, MNursPrac ‘18) has thrived since she graduated from 澳大利亚迪肯大学 with a Bachelor of Nursing. She returned for her Masters, got married, and had her first child — with another on the way — all while maintaining her work as a theatre nurse at Warrnambool Base Hospital.
Nursing was Lulu’s passion. And receiving the inaugural?Moore?Family?Scholarship helped her realise her dream.
Donors Greg and John O'Brien established the?Moore?Family?Scholarship in 2008, which provides an opportunity for an aspiring student from Warrnambool or the Western District to take up nursing and contribute to the wellbeing of the community.
For John and Greg, establishing the scholarship was personal: as descendants of one of Warrnambool’s founding families, they saw an opportunity to leave a lasting legacy for their community, and to honour their mother and aunt.
John and Lulu recently reconnected over a decade after Lulu’s graduation.
It was a special moment for both of them, made possible by the Moore family's generosity and Lulu's dedication to nursing, which combined, grows the legacy of the Moore family's impact on rural health.