18-year-old Bronx teen sponsors schoolchildren in Ghana

Max Owobu, an 18-year-old student from the Bronx, founded the Yenko Foundation, a nonprofit organization that finances schooling for children in Ghana. Owobu, whose father grew up in Ghana, has spent summers in the country since age fifteen and witnessed peers working instead of attending school. Using his own allowance, he first paid for the schooling of one child, Matthew,...