BIPOC students gain web design skills while building sites for Black-owned businesses
March 8, 2021 at 9:54 am
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Mama Sambusa Kitchen was recently saved from potential financial ruin by a high school student.
Through a new program offered by the Seattle Office of Economic Development and the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle, Mama Sambusa was matched with student Lucy Richardson who built the restaurant a website, providing the business which has been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic with a means for selling its sambusas, gyros and cheesecake without giving a cut to an ordering or delivery platform.