The countdown is on to December 31st to help raise $1 million for Wunderkeks to expand their cookie company, into grocery stores nationwide. FOX 7 Austin's Leslie Rangel spoke to Luis Gramajo and Hans Schrei and finds it's about more than just expanding their business and making money.The countdown is on to December 31st to help raise a million dollars for Wunderkeks to expand their cookie company, into grocery stores nationwide.
Luis Gramajo and Hans Schrei say their goal to raise the money is not about getting rich, it’s to create safe spaces for LGBTQIA youth with the help of their signature pink boxes. "We started receiving mostly emails [from parents] saying that they had the idea that their son was queer but they didn’t know how to bring it up," Gramajo explains.home. The immigrant couple spends their time on the back patio playing with their dogs while waiting for a test recipe for their new apple pie cookies to bake. It’s a daily life activity they don’t take for granted.
"One of the reasons why we moved from Guatemala is that we were looking for a space for us because we couldn’t get married there and it was a little tougher," Hans Schrei says."[Parents] found [the conversation] was easier to approach [by] getting our special edition for pride cookies so they knew [their children] could feel comfortable in bringing up the conversation," Gramajo said, referring to their signature pink boxes.