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Although my giving page is no longer active, you can still donate. If you would like to provide any additional support, please do so here.
Although my giving page is no longer active, you can still donate. If you would like to provide any additional support, please do so here.
Hello, my name is Keji Latio. I am a fourth-year Respiratory Therapy student from Canal Winchester, OH. After graduation, I plan on working as a respiratory therapist in Columbus while on track to pursuing a career in medicine, with special interest in OB/GYN and pediatrics. Inside the hospital, you can find me somewhere in royal blue scrubs, performing breathing treatments and therapies with patients as a Respiratory Therapy Tech at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.
However, healthcare is not my only interest. When I am outside of Columbus, you can find me making cookie dough with my team at The Blessed Bakery (@theeblessedbakery). The Blessed Bakery is a cookie-based social enterprise working to provide food, water, rent assistance, and school supplies to our Columbus community and abroad in my family’s home country, South Sudan. We provide anything people need to be safe and healthy. I started small, in my Stadium Scholarship Program dorm on South campus, baking cookies for pediatric cancer and walking them miles across campus to deliver cookies before they cooled. From then until now, we’ve always redistributed 100% of the proceeds.
We operate on the collectivist mutual aid traditions my immigrant parents taught me. It’s lending a hand whenever you can, knowing that your community will also take care of you. “Today it’s you, tomorrow it’s me.” You might need help today, and I might need help tomorrow. That’s what mutual aid is about. Solidarity, not charity. To date, we have provided over $6,000 of food, water, rent assistance, bail funds, and other emergency needs to folks who need it.
Many college students live week to week not knowing where their next meal could come from. Food insecurity has been a major issue in Franklin County, and the pandemic has only worsened the conditions for students and families in a period of loss. But our Columbus community has the power to take care of itself. With the Student Food Pantry Fund, students can get healthy and nutritious meals so they can focus on education and other parts of being a Buckeye. Please join me in supporting the Student Food Pantry fund so no Buckeyes ever go hungry again.
Be Blessed,
Keji Latio
