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Local business run by IC senior sells homemade cookies
Via’s cookies is a local business run by an IC senior that donates portions of its profits to students in need.
theithacan.org
Amaechi Kofoworola was enrolled at the New School in New York from 2020 to early 2021. Kofoworola was a leading figure in the group of BIPOC students that raised concerns regarding a lack of financial aid, and he left the school after those concerns went widely unaddressed by administration.
“I had to leave the school due to the amount of racism and classism within the school that affected me and a lot of Black students,” Kofoworola said. “I basically had to compile and read 50 to 60 plus messages from BIPOC students who were having the same issues as me and I had to, by myself, post each and every one of them. After that, the school didn’t really do anything to provide any help or compensation.”
Carpenter ended up raising $120 for Kofoworola in Spring 2021, but he decided to share the donation with other students going through the same problems he was facing.
A story about a glorified lemonade stand raising 120 dollars for a guy on the hook for 30,000 got a niggas ribs. Also it sounds like he's going through everything white kids on financial aid go through, they just don't cry about it endlessly.