Have you ever thought about running lemonade stand (货摊) to make money? Sixth-grader Jamaria Crump has. She has been very successful at it, too. It took the 11-year-old one year to build her lemonade stand to earn money for those in need.

Her business, Lemon Topia, is a hit, which her teacher said was surprising. She makes pies, cakes and cookies besides lemonade.

Jamaria built LemonTopia herself with the help of Mom. “I’m a teacher and had no time to help her at first. So she had begged for a lemonade stand for a year or two before I let her do it.” said Jasmine Hall Jamaria’s mother.

Jamaria’s school announced a baking sale in 2016 that was a perfect chance to try out Jamaria’s plan for a lemonade stand. Jamaria made cookies and cakes. After the baking sale, she kept selling at school and community events Now she has her own business at a street market.

Of course, Jamaria pays for her own costs. She has to buy the materials and also pays her mother for rides and working for the stand. Hall says Jamaria does not like the cleaning up. “I make her wash all of her own dishes. That’s a constant battle.” Hall said.

The lemonade business can have its ups and downs. “I’m very proud of her for sticking with it.” said Hall. She wondered if Jamaria would get bored and stop. But that hasn’t happened.

Doran Brown, Hall’s friend, says Jamaria is a success in Baltimore. “She is adorable (讨人喜爱的). She is running her own business to help others.” he said.

In fact, Jamaria dreams of studying in Paris to be a dessert cook. For now, she bakes and sells her goods. She is turning LemonTopla into strong starting point for a sweet future to help others.

Amelia Lisowe is 12 years old. She has a lot going on, but she still finds time to brighten the world of foster children. In 2018, she founded her nonprofit organization Lisowe’s Lights. It provides night lights to children in the foster care system. Foster care is when children are placed in another home. This happens when their families cannot take care of them or it is too dangerous. “Sometimes foster kids have to leave in the middle of the night because of neglect, abuse or drugs,” said Amelia.“Having that night lights makes it more comfortable in a new house where they may not know anybody.”

When she was just 8 years old, Amelia searched for places to volunteer. But she kept being turned away. Adults said she was too young.“I felt kind of defeated, because I love to volunteer,“ she said. One day her mother mentioned that foster children occasionally have to leave their homes overnight. Amelia began thinking of her own fear of the dark.“I couldn’t imagine being in a new home and being in that darkness.” Amelia said. She told a school counselor about her idea of collecting night lights for foster children. Her school hosted a drive collecting $1 donations. Lisowe’s Lights grew from there.

Amelia has made a big difference worldwide. Her lights have gone as far as England, Poland, Ukraine, France and New Zealand. In February 2023,Lisowe’s Lights launched(启动)an Ambassadors of Light program. The program encourages young people to get involved with the foster care system.

Rachel Hubbard, a former foster parent, called the night lights a wonderful blessing. “They are a big help to kids who are sleeping in a new place,” she said. A foster care group said the night lights are the first thing the kids always pull out of their bags. “They can just see the smiles on their faces.“Amelia said

“It’s surreal how much Lisowe’s Lights has grown,” said Amelia’s mother. The group has sent more than 15,000 lights to children. She is very proud of her daughter. “People don’t think about being afraid of the dark when they stay somewhere new, Lauren Lisowe said. Amelia had an idea and followed through with it. To be able to make such an impact ”has been a really neat experience”.

The Wuhan Institute of Shipbuilding Technology was used as a quarantine site (隔离区) from Feb 8 to March 28. Cheng Shining, a junior of Central China Normal University in Wuhan, was responsible for collecting and distributing supplies for quarantined people and medical staff. As the youngest volunteer at this site, he also chose to live there so that he could show up whenever he was needed.

One day Cheng and two other volunteers took more than 3 hours to move all 1,462 boxes of mineral water to storage with 50 firemen's help. Cheng says. "A single person's strength is limited, but we know the whole country is helping us."

Cheng was a volunteer for the Military World Games held in Wuhan last October. It was the first time he saw his hometown under the world's spotlight. "I've experienced the highlight of Wuhan, and now when my hometown touched a low point, I want to get through the difficulty together with the city," Cheng says.

Like Cheng, 28-year-old Wuhan local Zhu Aobing also volunteered to help his home city. He signed up right away to be a volunteer for the vaccine. A total of 108 Wuhan locals became the first group of COVID-19 vaccine volunteers in March. They are healthy adults aged from 18 to 60 selected from thousands of people who applied.

"Since the lockdown, I've always been thinking what I can do for my hometown during the epidemic," he says. Zhu is a freshman of Hubei University of Technology in Wuhan. He joined the army when he was 18 years old and served for five years. However, Zhu didn't want to miss the chance to study further, so he decided to go to college last year.

"No matter how long I have finished my military service, I always have the responsibility to go to the front line when the country needs me, and when facing this pandemic(疫情), being a vaccine volunteer is what I should do," he says.