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?
