He has only 17 years old but he has devoted his life to lending a hand to other people.
Timothy Braund left school at the end of Year 10 last year to dedicate himself to developing youth work strategies in the community as a full time volunteer. .jpg)
He has lived with a hearing disability his whole life and a parent suffers from depression, but despite these challenges of his own, Timothy is a community hero with an enormous list of achievements.
He has just been appointed to the Australian Youth Affairs Coalition which is Australia's non-government youth affairs peak body.
AYAC represents the interests of young people at a national and international level and Timothy was invited to join the AYAC Steering Committee for the National Youth Conference in Sydney next year (2011).
He is also on the Youth Affairs Council of SA where he campaigned the Government close of the Magill Youth Training Centre.
He has also been heavily involved in Unley and Burnside councils, working on youth issues and submitted Bills to State Parliament over the past two years as part of the Youth Parliament initiative.
In March (2010), he won the Young Citizen of the Year award for SA and for the City of Unley.
And on Wednesday he was presented with The Duke of Edinburgh's Gold Award at Government House.
"It was great recognition for what I've done. I don't do it for the glory, I do it because I enjoy helping people," Timothy said.
He now enrolled in a Diploman of Business.
"I really want to advocate for the rights of SA Youth," Timothy, who aspires to be a Politician, said.
Written by Lanchlan Pryor
Sourced from the Adelaide Advertiser 3 December 2010
