Lyndon Barends: The Founder & Organizer of the DAD Fund – lyndonbarends97
Lyndon Barends is the recipient of the 2014 Inyathelo Award for Philanthropy in Education. Lyndon Barends set up the DAD Fund ten years ago to nurture young leaders and provide disadvantaged teenagers with the opportunities to rise above their circumstances through education and development programs. Lyndon Barends himself grew up in a shack in Crossroads outside Cape Town and only managed to finish his schooling by working as a cleaner at his college after hours. The late Dean of the college, Daniel Arthur Douman, supported and mentored him throughout his career and it was in honour of him, that Lyndon set up the DAD Fund in 2003. Starting his career as a teacher, Lyndon Barends became involved in community development and later became a spokesperson for the World Health Organisation, campaigning for TB sufferers alongside Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. After being awarded a bursary to do an MBA in the UK, Lyndon Barends joined Standard Bank where he serv...
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