3岁的孩子卖柠檬水，为帮助婴儿而筹款

3岁的孩子卖柠檬水，为帮助婴儿而筹款

When 3-year-old Ava Lewis decided to start a lemonade stand this summer, the Durham, NC, tot knew just where her profits would go.

今年夏天，3岁的艾娃·刘易斯决定在北卡罗来纳州达勒姆市的托特开办一个柠檬水摊，她知道自己挣的钱用来干什么。

“I want to help babies,” Ava told her mom, Maggie, when the two began plotting the sweet endeavor earlier this summer.

“我想帮助婴儿。”艾娃告诉她的妈妈玛吉，两人在今年夏天早些时候，开始策划这项甜蜜的尝试。

They decided to put the money from their stand toward bottles and diapers for local babies in need. Now the charitable business is so successful, Ava has had to scale up from just selling cups.

他们决定把挣来的钱用在买奶瓶和尿布上，送给当地有需要的婴儿。现在慈善事业如此成功，艾娃不得不把只卖杯子的规模扩大。

“One lady jumped out the car and said, ‘I wanna get some gallons,’ ” Maggie tells ABC11.

“一位女士跳下车说，‘我想喝点加仑，’”玛吉告诉媒体。

Ava, her mom and grandmother tested recipes and built the stand, which they parked outside the hair salon Maggie has owned for 11 years. Thirsty fans started lining up once they heard where the money was going.

艾娃、妈妈和祖母一起测试了食谱，并建立了展台，他们把它停在玛吉经营了11年的美发沙龙外面。口渴的粉丝们听说了这项筹款项目就开始排队。

On Monday, Ava’s crew had made enough money that she was able to meet her goal, buying diapers and wipes and donating them to Durham Rescue Mission’s Good Samaritan Inn, a transitional housing facility for women and children.

周一，艾娃的工作人员赚了足够的钱，她能够实现她的目标，她们购买尿布和湿巾，并将它们捐赠给达勒姆救援团的慈善撒玛利亚酒店，那是一个妇女和儿童过渡性保障住房。

“It just means the world to us to see a young person, 3 years old, that is thinking about others,” the facility’s director, Gail Mills, tells ABC.

该机构负责人盖尔·米尔斯告诉美国广播公司：“对我们来说，看到一个3岁的年轻人为他人着想，这意味着整个世界都充满了爱。”

Now Ava’s got her own logo and Facebook page and is hosting a “Sip & Read” eventthis Sunday with a North Carolina children’s book author.

现在艾娃有了自己的商标和Facebook主页，并将于本周日与北卡罗莱纳州的一位儿童图书作家共同举办一个名为“Sip & Read”的活动。

She’s also earned herself a new nickname: “The Lemonade Baby.” That’s what Maggie has been calling her daughter since their stand went viral. “I said I was going to retire at 40,” says Maggie. “I guess Ava is going to have me retire sooner than that.”

她还为自己赢得了一个新绰号:“柠檬水宝贝”。自从女儿赢得这个称号以来，玛吉一直这样称呼她的女儿。“我说过我要在40岁退休，”玛吉说。“我想艾娃会让我提前退休。”

Ava isn’t the only kid making lemonade for good: In Colorado this summer, 6-year-old Brady Campbell also started a lemonade stand, to fulfill his dad’s dying wish after he lost a battle with colon cancer. In Lexington, NC, tween sisters Hailey and Hannah Hager started a lemonade stand this year to help pay off their local school district’s $41,000 lunch debt.

艾娃并不是唯一一个做柠檬水的孩子：今年夏天在科罗拉多州，6岁的布雷迪·坎贝尔也开了一个柠檬水展台，以满足他父亲在与结肠癌抗争失败后的遗愿。在北卡罗来纳州的列克星敦，吐温姐妹海莉和汉娜哈格今年也开了一个柠檬水摊，以帮助当地学区偿还41000美元的午餐债务。