17-year-old's brainchild helps connect volunteer tutors to children around the world
Hundreds of underprivileged kids around the world are learning valuable lessons thanks to the brainchild of a 17-year-old student from Easton.
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Jun 23, 2021, 9:19 PM
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7ds agoHundreds of
underprivileged kids around the world are learning valuable lessons thanks to
the brainchild of a 17-year-old student from Easton.
Bianca Jortner, who is about to be
a senior at Joel Barlow High School, began tutoring
children on Zoom through her website - Youth Promise.
The tutoring is free of charge and
the website already has 500 volunteers.
The volunteers are helping children
who are homeless, in orphanages or the foster care system. Children from as far away as Vietnam are even benefitting from
these services.
Jortner says the
children have noticed improved grades and self-esteem.
