Little Girl Lemonade's Stand raises $50K In Two Months
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There's a sweet twist to this lemonade stand story that will quench your thirst to take a stand to help elevate your community and humanity. Take a sip and read on...
Sometimes the best life lessons can be learned from kids. Kids like Miss Vivienne Harr of Fairfax, Calif. Vivie, as she likes to be called, is a personality-full-cup-runneth-over, eight-year-old philanthropy phenom who set up a lemonade stand -- or what I like to call Lemonade Stand 2.0.
Vivie was inspired to take a stand against slavery after seeing an installation on slavery by Lisa Kristine, a photographer who captured these authentic, haunting, gut-wrenching snapshots of modern-day slaves around the world. Vivie was particularly moved by this picture of two Nepalese children carrying huge rocks on their backs.
The family cried in disbelief. They went home and researched slavery and human trafficking.
Vivie was inspired to take action. Watch how she quickly garnered tens of thousands of supporters from the local and worldwide community and raised more than $50,000 dollars in just under two months.
All the business acumen that Vivie had was selling lemonade. She took a stand and did something -- selling lemonade was in her power to be a voice for the voiceless.
Rain or shine, Vivie plans to set up shop and sell her organic, free trade, made-with-love lemonade every day until they raise $150,000 to free 500 slaves.
All of the proceeds will go to Not For Sale, a non-profit organization that re-abolishes slavery around the world. Won't you join her and make a stand?
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She was probably inspired by the HSBC ad, about a girl selling lemonade in foreign currencies.
The HSBC ad you get to see on krisflyer on SQ flights.
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no matter where she got the idea, she is still doing a good cause...
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2 kids carrying stones in nepal is really training.nepal is land of the gurkhas and home of the warriors.they train young kids to become warriors daily by doing such tasks.llike arnold shwarzeneggar he was made to go up and down hills daily with 2 heavy buckets of water when he was a child.30 years later ,he became a body builder.
other than that most nepalese are like any other humans.some are so fat until they cant run when a selection of gurkhas were made in the past.