An investment bank is helping the families of the workers they lost during 9/11 to build a brighter future. The Sandler O’Neill & Partners is an investment banking firm that had its headquarters in the World Trade Center’s south tower before it was destroyed.
Through their foundation, they’ve paid for the college tuition of 54 children of employees who lost their lives during the terrorist attack.
Their kids chose different schools, from technical institutes and community colleges to Notre Dame and Stanford.
Many People’s Families Were Torn Apart by 9/11
The bank set up the foundation in the days following the 11th of September and now they’re funding 100 percent of the school expenses for kids of 66 workers who lost their lives in the attack.
Moreover, they’ve also paid full salaries to the victims’ dependents throughout the end of 2001, as well as for their health insurance for the following ten years.
The letters of appreciation these kids wrote to the firm are amazing and these kids appreciate that the bank has remembered their dad or mom in this way. Many of them, unfortunately, hardly knew their parents since they lost them when they were too young to remember.
It Was a Time to Stand Up
According to one of the bank’s partners, Jimmy Dunne, there was a moment in time to stand up. They believed that what they’ll do will echo for years in the families of their people, their children, and their grandchildren.
In 2016, there were 22 remaining kids who were still eligible for college tuition assistance from the foundation, with the youngest one being 13 years old at the time.
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