Cordis Trust

The Cordis Trust is a cultural foundation, founded to promote the principles of compassion, creative word art (poetry, writing, drama and lyric art and cultural historical research) and faith from its own funds with the motto "from the heart".

The Trust was established in 2000 by Dr Fanie Marais as a formal continuation of the Mardene Marais Memorial Foundation, that had been set up in 1990 in memory of Mardene Marais (28/08/1968- 18/10/1989), who had been a student at Rand Afrikaans University from 1987-1989. The trust seeks to fufill the following objectives: to promote the principles of compassion, creative word art (poetry, writing, drama and lyric art and cultural historical research) and spiritual work, through a range of projects, in which youth voices are emphasized.