{"id":115614,"date":"2026-10-22T11:43:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/?p=115614"},"modified":"2026-10-22T11:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:43:06","slug":"elize-sauer-36-years-of-service-to-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/af\/2026\/10\/22\/elize-sauer-36-years-of-service-to-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Elize Sauer \u2013 36 jaar in diens van haar medemens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div data-parent=\"true\" class=\"vc_row row-container\" id=\"row-unique-0\"><div class=\"row limit-width row-parent\"><div class=\"wpb_row row-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_column pos-top pos-center align_left column_parent col-lg-12 single-internal-gutter\"><div class=\"uncol style-light\"  ><div class=\"uncoltable\"><div class=\"uncell no-block-padding\" ><div class=\"uncont\" ><div class=\"uncode_text_column\" ><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">\u201cEk s\u00ea doelbewus dat ek maatskaplike werk l\u00e9\u00e9f, want vir my is dit veel meer as net \u0149 beroep,\u201d vertel Elize Sauer, wat reeds 36 jaar as maatskaplike werker praktiseer. Die afgelope tien jaar is sy deel van die span by Abraham Kriel Kinderhuis Nylstroom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Haar loopbaan het op \u0149 onverwagse manier begin. Elize was oorspronklik van plan om argeologie aan die Universiteit van Pretoria te studeer, maar \u0149 opedag by die Departement Maatskaplike Werk het haar van plan laat verander.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">\u201cEk het besef my pad l\u00ea nie tussen klippe nie, maar tussen mense,\u201d vertel sy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Oor die jare het Elize ondervinding in verskeie vertakkings van maatskaplike werk opgedoen, waaronder bejaardesorg en werk met ongehude moeders, waarmee sy tien jaar lank gemoeid was.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">\u201cEk het besef my pad l\u00ea nie tussen klippe nie, maar tussen mense,\u201d vertel sy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Oor die jare het Elize ondervinding in verskeie vertakkings van maatskaplike werk opgedoen, waaronder bejaardesorg en werk met ongehude moeders, waarmee sy tien jaar lank gemoeid was.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">N\u00e1 haar gesin se verhuising na Modimolle het sy aanvanklik beplan om meer tyd tuis deur te bring. In Januarie 2016 het sy egter by Abraham Kriel Kinderhuis aangesluit, waar sy sedertdien talle kinders en gesinne deur moeilike omstandighede begelei het.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Vir Elize bly die suksesvolle hereniging van \u0149 kind met sy of haar familie bly vir haar een van die hoogtepunte van haar werk. Tog is dit dikwels die kleiner oomblikke wat haar die meeste bybly. \u201cSoms kom \u2019n kind gebroke, moedeloos en sonder hoop by my kantoor in, maar stap later weer met \u2019n glimlag daar uit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Elize is ook dankbaar dat haar man, Willem, en hul kinders, Marike en Wiehann, haar deur die jare ondersteun het.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Wanneer sy terugkyk op haar loopbaan, is sy dankbaar vir die onverwagse wending wat haar lewe geneem het. \u201cEk is dankbaar dat die Here \u0149 klip in my pad gerol het, nie om my te laat struikel nie, maar om my van rigting te laat verander.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Vandag werk Elize nie met klippe nie, maar met mense. 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