Mentoring Programme
What is a Mentor?
The broad definition is this: an experienced person who goes out of his/her way to help a mentee set important life goals and develop the skills to reach them. An informal mentor provides coaching, listening, advice, sounding board reactions, or other help in an unstructured, casual manner. A formal or enhanced informal mentor agrees to an ongoing, planned partnership that focuses on helping the mentee reach specific goals over a designated period.
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The broad definition is this: an experienced person who goes out of his/her way to help a mentee set important life goals and develop the skills to reach them. An informal mentor provides coaching, listening, advice, sounding board reactions, or other help in an unstructured, casual manner. A formal or enhanced informal mentor agrees to an ongoing, planned partnership that focuses on helping the mentee reach specific goals over a designated period.
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The Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy established a Scholarship Trust Fund for students in Mining and Metallurgy at South African tertiary educational Institutions in 2003. The fund holds some reserves for future years in order to smooth the flow of monies to the Institutions. Considerable funding has come from the SAIMM itself as it has contributed R150000 each year; but significant funds have been donated by individuals in the minerals and metals industry or by the smaller companies operating in the industry.
In 2005 contributions from individuals totaled R35000 and from various companies it amounted to R65000. As a consequence the Trustees have dipped into the fund reserves for 2006 and are increasing their efforts to raise funds in this year.
The Scholarship Fund is a registered Public Benefit Organisation and all donations are fully tax deductible. The Fund operates as a Trust fund under the administration of the SAIMM. The distributed funds are used for the specific benefit of deserving students in their early years (usually 1st or 2nd year) of Mining and/or Metallurgical study. Thus these funds reward good study habits and assist young students to spend more of their efforts at study rather than at attempting to earn money to make ends meet. This makes it possible for the financially stretched students to remain in their chosen discipline of study even though they have not yet been awarded a company bursary. Company bursaries are seldom awarded until at least the second year of study and then not all students will receive a bursary.
Funds continue to assist many needy students with good records at the UCT, Witwatrsrand and Pretoria as well as purchasing the most expensive textbooks needed for the first year students at the University of Johannesburg. The increased funding in 2006 will be utilized in a similar manner at the sponsored departments; these are UCT Chemical Engineering (Minerals Processing Option), the Stellenbosch Chemical Engineering (Minerals Processing Option), Pretoria University Mining and Metallurgical Depts, Wits University Mining and Metallurgical Engineering Depts., and the University of Johannesburg Mining and Metallurgy Depts.
| Year | Amount Allocated |
| 2004 | R 80,000-00 |
| 2005 | R 270,000-00 |
| 2006 | R 300,000-00 |
In 2005 contributions from individuals totaled R35000 and from various companies it amounted to R65000. As a consequence the Trustees have dipped into the fund reserves for 2006 and are increasing their efforts to raise funds in this year.
The Scholarship Fund is a registered Public Benefit Organisation and all donations are fully tax deductible. The Fund operates as a Trust fund under the administration of the SAIMM. The distributed funds are used for the specific benefit of deserving students in their early years (usually 1st or 2nd year) of Mining and/or Metallurgical study. Thus these funds reward good study habits and assist young students to spend more of their efforts at study rather than at attempting to earn money to make ends meet. This makes it possible for the financially stretched students to remain in their chosen discipline of study even though they have not yet been awarded a company bursary. Company bursaries are seldom awarded until at least the second year of study and then not all students will receive a bursary.
Funds continue to assist many needy students with good records at the UCT, Witwatrsrand and Pretoria as well as purchasing the most expensive textbooks needed for the first year students at the University of Johannesburg. The increased funding in 2006 will be utilized in a similar manner at the sponsored departments; these are UCT Chemical Engineering (Minerals Processing Option), the Stellenbosch Chemical Engineering (Minerals Processing Option), Pretoria University Mining and Metallurgical Depts, Wits University Mining and Metallurgical Engineering Depts., and the University of Johannesburg Mining and Metallurgy Depts.