DESTINY & PURPOSE ACADEMY
Empowering Purpose. Transforming Lives. Destiny & Purpose Academy (DAPA) is a faith-driven leadership and life skills academy designed to equip young adults, women, and underserved communities with mentorship, training, and global impact opportunities. Discover your purpose today.
Dr. Annette White
A Champion for World Changers
Knowing your God-given purpose drives you towards greatness.
Dr. Annette White is on a quest to help young people seek out, find and walk in their unique purpose in life.
As the founder of Destiny and Purpose Academy, affectionately known as “DAPA”, she strongly believes in Missions as a way of serving the community and giving back.
She is often heard saying,
“Be about it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it”
OUR MISSION
Destiny and Purpose Academy (DAPA) empowers youth, young adults, the deaf and women through education, personal development, and essential life resources rooted in biblical principles. By leveraging dynamic life and soft skills training, enhanced by cultural immersion, DAPA equips individuals to fulfill their potential and create lasting, positive change in their communities and across the globe. As a sanctuary of hope and innovation, DAPA integrates financial acumen with visionary leadership to foster resilience, purpose, and transformation through impactful missions and outreach, particularly in Barbados and beyond.
THE 3D PRINCIPLE
DAPA operates from three primary principles of service, The 3D Principle.
DEVELOPMENT
Be intentional about developing the gifts and talents given to you, use your gifts to serve others and blessings will always follow!
DISCERNMENT
Be intentional about perceiving the needs of those around you, come up with a plan to meet that need, give freely and blessings will always follow.
DISCIPLESHIP
Be intentional about duplicating yourself, reach back, and teach someone else. Each one, teach one, and blessings will always follow.
