Hakkı Akdeniz, the proprietor of the well-known pizza chain Champion Pizza as well as understood for his charity work, has actually been consisted of in the list of the “wonderful immigrants” introduced annually by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in the U.S., a kind fund developed to sustain education and learning programs, and also became the initial Turkish person to be consisted of in this checklist.
“I was just one of those immigrants that come here with huge dreams,” Akdeniz claimed. “I am recognized as well as proud to be acknowledged by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.”
Born in 1980 in Türkiye’s southeastern city of Diyarbakır, he went to Canada in 1997 to examine, however after that he gave up institution to discover the art of pizza making throughout his remain there with his brother and also later on left for New York in 2001 with just a couple of bucks in his pocket.Akdeniz started
from square one as well as conserved adequate cash to open his first restaurant on the Lower East Side in 2009. He has opened 13 locations given that then.Founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1911, the
Carnegie Corporation of New York sustains curricula in several nations, especially the U.S.Every Fourth of July, Carnegie Corporation of New York celebrates a group of
amazing Americans– all naturalized people– who have actually enriched and strengthened our nation and our freedom via their contributions as well as actions.This year, the Corporation recognized 34 people from 32 countries and also a wide variety of backgrounds, consisting of regional leaders who
operate in education and learning, arts, law enforcement, public service, healthcare and small business ownership, in addition to community-based advocates for education and learning equity, climate change, food safety and security as well as programs for the homeless.