Lulu Cerone

When Lulu was 10, she learned that each cup of lemonade she sold for $1 can provide a person in Africa with clean drinking water for one whole year. Inspired by the life-saving power of even the smallest donation, she set up a Boys vs Girls LemonAID challenge for her fifth grade class. They exceeded all expectations by raising $4,000 and had so much fun doing it that her classmates didn't want to stop. So she founded LemonAID Warriors to share creative action plans she called PhilanthroParties to help make social activism a part of anyone’s social life. Ten years later, LemonAID Warriors has raised over $150,000, provided clean water for thousands of people, sent hundreds of children to school, and supported dozens of other local and global charities. Lulu published her book PhilanthroParties! A Party-Planning Guide for Kids Who Want to Give Back through Beyond Words/Simon & Schuster, teaching young people how to party with a purpose. Lulu now attends Columbia University in New York and is proud to pass on leadership of LemonAID Warriors to two extraordinary founding members who have been the driving engine’s to LemonAID Warrior’s success.

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