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Student businesses soar through York Region summer program

28 August 2023

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Michael Wang had a vision for an organization that could cross all borders. The St. Andrew’s College student sought to build up a non-profit Smiles Without Borders, an international student letter exchange program. Thanks to the help from the York Small Business Enterprise’s Centre summer business program, that vision is becoming a reality, with hundreds of letters getting exchanged between Canadian, Kenyan and Ugandan students so far. “It’s going as well as I can imagine, and I’m really excited about what the future has to hold,” he said, adding that the program “helped me get off the ground without having to put me in a debt situation.”

Full Article: newmarkettoday.ca

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