An eight-year-old girl from Fairfax, California, turned a classic childhood activity into a determined fundraising campaign after one photograph showed her the reality of modern child slavery. Vivienne Harr started a roadside lemonade stand on 25 June 2012. Her goal was to raise $100,000 for groups working to fight slavery. She reached that target in less than six months, but she refused to stop. Instead, she kept the stand open every day for a full year. Her campaign began after she saw a photograph by documentary photographer Lisa Kristine. The image, titled "Brothers Carrying Stone, Nepal", showed two young boys forced to carry heavy granite slabs with straps around their foreheads. The picture deeply affected Harr. Until then, she had believed forced labor was a thing of the past. "I thought slavery ended with Abraham Lincoln," Harr wrote on the Make a Stand website. "I was wrong about that. I learned that slavery is everywhere and even here in America. I wanted to do something, because compassion is not compassion without action." Wanting to help, Harr built a small wooden stand in a local park in her hometown of Fairfax, in Marin County, California. Instead of setting a price for each cup, she asked customers to "pay what is in your heart".
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