Newest Schenectady Greenmarket vendor looks to steer youth away from incarceration | The Daily Gazette
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Niyanna Brooks is rewriting child labor laws.
The 8-year-old city girl was engaged with the public as she and other youngsters helped sell baked goods from under the Cornerstone Bakery Project’s tent at the Schenectady Greenmarket Sunday.
A new addition to the weekly farmers market, Cornerstone Bakery is a segment of the nonprofit Community Fathers’ Occupations Instead of Incarceration, earn-to-learn program.
The OIOI program aims to set youngsters on a path of business and entrepreneurship, hopefully derailing them from incarceration, Community Fathers executive director Walter Simpkins said.