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小身躯,大爱心:10岁小女孩的抗饥饿行动


When Elaina Johnson was 7, she came up with a plan to feed hundreds of people. “She wanted to make sack lunches” for people experiencing homelessness, her grandmother Shalynda Lund said. Each bag held a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich, a piece of fruit, a drink, chips, and a granola bar (燕麦棒). “We went downtown and she handed them all out,” Lund said. “All 400 of them.”

Helping others comes naturally to the young. “I saw that there were a lot of people that needed food,” Elaina said. “At the time, I didn’t understand why.” But she knew she wanted to be part of the solution. She says, “As soon as I could help, I wanted to help.” Elaina is now 10. She remains dedicated to the fight against hunger and food insecurity.
In Colorado, around 11% of residents say they don’t always eat as much as they think they should. They say they aren’t able to afford enough food. That’s according to a survey published earlier this year by the Colorado Health Institute. Of course, hunger is not a problem only in Colorado. “Hunger affects people in every single community nationwide,” Justin Levy says. He’s the executive director of Conscious Alliance, a nonprofit hunger-relief group based in Elaina’s hometown.
Levy has known Elaina since 2021. That’s when she and her grandmother went to the group’s national distribution center to collect food and supplies to help people in need. “What she’s doing is incredible,” Levy says. “She has the drive and the spirit and kindness and compassion to really make a difference.”
This past July, Elaina was honored by Hormel Foods as one of its 10 under 20 Food Heroes. The company’s annual award goes to young people who are fighting hunger. Elaina is the youngest person to receive the award this year. Soon after receiving the award, Elaina was honored at a Broomfield City Council meeting. “We just wanted to celebrate her,” council member Heidi Henkel said. “We really wanted to support her and just make her feel like her city and county are behind her.”
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