Vivienne’s Lemonade Stand
I first met Vivienne Harr at the Wisdom 2.0 Conference in San Francisco in March 2013. She was speaking to a crow
d of more than 1000 people about her fund-raising campaign to fight child slavery. She was nine years old. When Vivienne was eight, she saw a picture of two child slaves in Nepal. She told her mother she wanted to do something to help them. She decided to set up a lemonade stand. She opened that lemonade stand every day for a year, and raised more than $1 million.
Today Vivienne continues to amaze, charm and inspire. She serves as a model for other children, has been adopted as the poster child of Twitter, has appeared on media all over the country, spoken at the Vatican and her lemonade project ‘Take a Stand’, has grown into a full fledged company to support her cause.
I told Vivienne that I wanted to write a song for her campaign and this is it. Her dad told me that she loved the song and was listening to it every day.
What a great kid!
http://soundcloud.com/dada-nabhaniilananda/one-person
One Person
Josh Friedman & Dada Nabhaniilananda
You can be one person can’t you see?
Who can set one person free.
One person you can be
Set one person free.
If this kid with her Lemon-Aid
Can free five hundred slaves
think what you could do
and how it might free you
Think of Martin Luther King
He did such an awesome thing
Helen Keller, Mandela too
maybe the next one’s you
You can be one person, can’t you see?
Who can set one person free
One person you can be
Set one person free
Make a stand for everyone
Something magic has begun
Love’s a gift to give away
Why not give it everyday?
When we reach out to connect
we never know what to expect
take the future in our hands
can we do it? yes we can
We Can Be
One person, can’t you see
Who can set one person free
One person we can be
Set one person free
Giving everyone a reason to wonder
What can I do too?
You Can Be
One person, can’t you see
Who can set one person free
One person you can be
Set one person free