Thirteen-Year-Old Shows Nobody's Too Young To Create Impact

Aug 14, 2020 by apost team

Young age should not be a limit to anyone's capabilities or hinder anyone from reaching for the stars. This point has been clearly proven by 13-year-old girl Olivia Ohlson who has set up projects to help raise money and take part in helping a cancer center after her mother got treatment for breast cancer.

Olivia is a resident of Evanston, where she implements most of her projects in helping those in need despite her tender age. Olivia just turned 13, and she continues to assist those who are in need of the hospital, the elderly, and many more even during this hard pandemic season.

Challenges drive people to be innovative, and they can help people realize the qualities and abilities of themselves while trying to overcome or manage the arising crisis. Olivia started with two Pink Lemonade and Pink Ribbon Cookie Sales at her home in Evanston. These were only the first of a long list of projects that led to her nomination for a Points of Light Award.

She kept at it and would sell her lemonade and cookies on Sundays from 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm. She did all of this to pay tribute to her mother, Gini, who underwent treatment for breast cancer. This cookie & lemonade project took place in 2017 and 2018. At the end, Olivia had raised $7000. She gifted the money to a charity focused on breast cancer research.

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Staying motivated is necessary for any project. The lemonade-cookie stands were happening because Olivia's mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, but Olivia's motivation doesn't stop there. The young entrepreneur currently wants to be a biomedical engineer.

This scientific interest is the reason why she was genuinely keen on all procedures of her mother's healing process, post-recovery, and related issues. She planned to fund-raise for breast cancer research and also offered help and an open ear for ladies suffering from cancer like her mother who didn't have a family to support them.

Charity and generosity are significant traits of Olivia's character. She will drop what she's doing to support somebody. Recently, she created a coffee cake together with her mom for 120 senior residents of Evanston to bring people together.

Olivia started offering free mentoring to young learners and made a YouTube channel to post math coaching and reading content. She began Hygiene Kits for Evanston's Underserved, where she raises support, gathers, and afterward disperses free hygiene items to homeless people and those requiring help. Olivia has demonstrated on numerous occasions that she will do anything she can to lift up and assist those in need.

Birds of the same feather flock together. Olivia has taken part in the nonprofit Honeycomb Project that is run in Chicago. At Honey Comb, they host indoor and outdoor projects for different causes. During one outdoor event, Olivia took part in planting tress and plants to help against global warming and took part in other environmental conservation practices.

The Project has also organized clothes for food drives and clothing donations for multiple times as well as made posters for the Vietnam War memorial museum in Chicago. Project members also visit hospitals and sew blankets for them.

The most rewarding thing for Olivia is when she sees people that are very grateful and appreciate what she's doing. This shows that her deeds are purely from her heart. She is not limited by her age or the fact that she has no income yet.

Olivia believes that when she honestly tries to help others, she'll always manage to do so even if just in small ways. Create an impact on someone's life today and show them that no one is limited by using Olivia's story as inspiration.