Woman with Down Syndrome starts successful cookie company
Author: Dr Elena Kontogianni
After countless job rejections 26-year-old Collette Divitto, a woman with Down syndrome from Boston, decided to take matters into her hands and started her own cookie business.
Collette’s company started in her own kitchen, where she perfected her own recipes and now she hopes to grow the business enough to begin hiring other workers with disabilities.
Collette purchased a website herself, learned how to invoice her customers and soon people were putting in orders online. Collette already had more than 25,000 cookie orders all across the USA.
Her cookie company “Collettey’s Cookies” took off when her profile was presented by CBS and her story uploaded to the CBS Facebook page has been viewed more than eight million times.
“I am really amazed at the support for my company and my cookies”, Collette said.
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