Teenage brothers Salahdiin and Abdullahi Adan saw a void in primary school tutors in the Denver area, so they decided to do something about it.
The brothers, both students at Aurora charter the Lotus School for Excellence, offer free tutoring to K-12 students in Aurora and Denver through their organization Bright Minds, which they created this summer.
“We saw in our community, and mainly in the Denver metro area and Aurora, that there weren’t a lot of opportunities for free tutoring,” Salahdiin says. “SAT tutors can go up to even $1,000, $1,500, and it’s really expensive, especially for those who are in low-income housing.”…