Seeking Solutions: Charlotte teens working to get students ahead through financial literacy programs
Both Jay Sundar and Aditya Acharya are full-time students. They’re juniors at Ardrey Kell High School in Charlotte. However, over the past year they’ve stepped into a different role.
“Our goal was to provide free, quality financial literacy to students,” said Sundar.
Acharya said the initial conversation to help the community started their freshman year.
“We were in lunch, and we were talking about 'there’s something we must do in order to help out the community' and we were both really interested in finance, the stock market, managing money, budgeting,” he explained.
The pair said they were motivated by personal struggles and even the lack of classes about money and financial literacy in the school system.
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