David Bannatyne: Dragon's Den

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CHOICES David Bannatyne, self-made millionaire, dour hard-headed Scotsman on the TV programme Dragon`s Den, has written his auto-biography in which he tells of a strange encounter. After the Bosnian war he went to Rumania to help fundraise for the orphanages there. He was horrified by the appalling plight of the children that had been abandoned with medical, mental and physical disabilities, all treated identically, chained to their cots. Lying in their mess. Many were never held and even if they they entered the orphanage sane, they soon became deranged.
He writes “Over the course of the next few years I would see things that would break my heart, but I would also meet some truly remarkable people who have given my life a new dimension.

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