Advocacy by MBA NSW-ACT was totally unexpected. It changed the trajectory of my career. It has been a journey filled with anxiety and challenges. The only support I had was from MBA NSW-ACT. I am grateful to all of you for your kindness and generosity.

Thank you especially for all your emotional support. It helped me feel like someone had my back & understood how stressful getting out of domestic violence can be.

It has been harrowing year with an unexpected job loss and serious health problems and receiving MBA NSW-ACT support has helped me to gain the strength, courage and tenacity to apply for and get on the GP Training Program twice in one year. I am so grateful for your compassion, help and advocacy.

Now I have moved into fixed housing, I am focusing on stabilising and improving my mental health. Once I am on top of that I will reach out to engage in the medical professional development that has been offered and start putting together the pieces of whatever may be left of my career.

I really do appreciate all of your help. I don’t say this lightly, but if it wasn’t for what you and the board have done for me, I would not be alive today. I will forever be grateful for your compassion and support.

To have my financial pressures eased, even a little, has been incredibly helpful….. Please pass on my heartfelt thanks to the Council for this and previous assistance provided. I am determined to work through my ongoing challenges in as constructive a way as I possibly can. I remain convinced that relief and a time of less stress is in my destiny. I just hope it is not too far off.

Thank you so much for your generous assistance this year. Financial stress is obviously just one aspect of severe illness and some relief undoubtedly aids in improved wellbeing and hopefully recovery, I am profoundly grateful to your organisation.

I would like to thank the board for the generous and continued support that you provided for me over the period of my two operations and time away from work. Your support and the contact with the Social Worker were wonderful at a time of financial distress. I am now back on my feet - literally - and working full time and am very appreciative of the role you played in my recovery.

I just wanted to say thank you so much for all the help and support that I received earlier this year, during a very difficult period. The financial gift was very helpful in meeting my bills at that time. I am pleased to say that my husband is much better and I have been able to keep our house. Thank you for your emotional support. Words cannot express my gratitude.

This is a particularly difficult time for me and my husband and our young children. We thank you sincerely in your assistance you have made these time a little lighter. We live in love and hope.

Can I say how much I appreciate the time and space you have given me to talk and debrief. Talking openly about myself and my problems is not easy for me … I thank you for it extensively!

I found myself in a very difficult situation a few months ago and I’m so thankful for your support. During a period of financial hardship, the rental payments you made on my behalf reduced my stress levels considerably and allowed me to undertake treatment for my medical condition.

We are so incredibly grateful for all MBA NSW-ACT have done for us already. It’s allowed me to take the time off I needed so I could fully recover from being burnt out, without the additional stress of wondering how I would pay the household bills.

I am incredibly grateful for this support to assist with living expenses at this challenging time. Having less financial worry helps me focus on resting and recovering in order that I can give back to my profession, family and patients again in the future. Thank you for your advocacy and care.

Thank you for all you have done. I am sitting right now on the top of a mountain with a stunning view. I can’t believe my life might actually turn around to this new start. I am forever grateful!

We lost our GP clinic in the NSW floods. Amid the trauma and the devastation, hope came from the kindness of MBA NSW-ACT. They offered support, sympathy and much needed financial help. …We hope you never need them, but it is a relief to know they have your back if you do!