On 9 September 2026, Shaakirah Cassiem graduated with her Master of Public Health, MPH in Community Eye Health. Her parents are extremely excited and proud.

The exciting and long-awaited Beat Diabetes! awareness-raising and health promotion event took place at the Khayelitsha District Hospital (KDH) in Cape Town, South Africa on 14 November 2024.

The inaugural Awareness-raising and Health promotion (AHP) course of the Professional Education and Information project of UCT-CEHI was successfully offered in Cape Town from 14 to 18 October 2024.

In February 2024, I took up my first assignment to conduct Senior Trainer Observation (STO) of a RAAB (Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness).