How Hurricane Harvey Inspired Young Volunteers

While other middle-schoolers spent the last weekend of the summer on bittersweet beach trips or shopping for school supplies, 12-year old Sierra Johnson and 11-year old Jakylin Sanders spent theirs cleaning up moldy floorboards from the home of a woman they had never met.

Nobody was forcing them to be there. Their own homes were unscathed in the storm, and their parents were minding sick younger siblings.