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Helping Students Achieve a Debt-Free Education

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March 27, 2024
November 16, 2018
Watch how this group is helping students graduate college debt free.

This week, Grotto catches up Tyesha Turner. She is the president of What's Next Org Inc., a group on a mission to help students graduate with less student loan debt.

She wants to help the students see that "they can achieve debt-free education" and "create a financially stable future."

Video Transcript

Tyesha Turner: My name is Tyesha Turner. At What's Next, we are a non-profit organization that provides scholarship writing assistance, tutoring, and proof reading for all scholarship essays or college entry exam essays, for all students in middle school and high school.

The average student loan debt is $37,172.

Tyesha: 70% of students graduate with student loan debt. At What's Next, our mission to help students graduate with less student loan debt so the student can go on and create a financially stable future. We are helping the students realize that they can achieve that free education.

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Grotto
Published:
March 27, 2024
November 16, 2018
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