2019 Beneficiaries

In care from the age of 10, Dr Sameen Kausar saw an ambulance outside a familiar house, rushed in, and saw the parademics save her grandmother from a potentially terminal heart attack. At that moment, she decided she wanted to become a doctor.

Having completed her medical course at Bristol University, Sameen was entitled to take an elective placement, wherever she liked in the world. Supported by EBSF, Sameen Keen gained a head start practising in general surgery and anaesthesia on a six weeks placement at the Hutt Valley District Hospital, near Wellington, New Zealand.

Following a diploma in acting and an undergraduate degree in English with Creative Writing, Amir Khan BTEC BA undertook an MA in Creative Writing at the Met Film School, located at the historic Ealing Studios in West London. In care in his teens, Amir studied acting before going on to study writing at Nottingham Trent University.

As a keen Harry Potter fan, Amir was initially interested in writing screenplays in the fantasy genre, but he concentrated on more socially-critical writing in his course at Ealing. The Eve Brook Scholarship Fund paid the difference between his fees and the maximum postgraduate student loan.