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After years of working at the Red Cross Hospital she realised the priority of education in helping families rise above their impoverished conditions, and began recycling school textbooks from privileged white schools to poor black schools. In 1970 she founded the African Scholar's Fund which provided
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with a MBChB. As a student she helped her father, Sandy Blagden, establish CAFDA, an organisation that raised funds for the development of poor communities living on the Cape Flats by selling second hand books. CAFDA bookshops still flourish today. During those years she also a co-founder of SHAWCO.
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a grant to black high school learners in South Africa, and later TECSAT (Technical College Student Aid Trust Western Cape). She worked as a medical officer for the
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In 1987 she was awarded an honorary Master of Social Sciences from the
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Mtyala, Q. 2003. 'Scientists lectures kept hundreds rapt'.
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Christopher, Barbara, Sandy (Andrew), David and Elizabeth
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in 2010. Her husband, Dr Jack Elsworth, died in 2003.
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East Grinstead
Cape Town
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African Scholars' Fund
African Scholars' Fund UK
Herschel Girls School
University of Cape Town
Janet Bourhill Institute
University of Cape Town
MBE
Queen Elizabeth II
Order of Simon of Cyrene
"Paul Harris Award"
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African Scholar's Fund Homepage
"St Paul's Newsletter"
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Elsworth's ashes in Newlands Forest
"Dr Margaret Elsworth at Who's Who"
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Mtyala, Q. 2003. 'Scientists lectures kept hundreds rapt'. Cape Argus.
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