I told the story of the healer and the lemon trees to my family and friends. One of the friends was a teacher. She asked me to share my story with her eighth-grade students.
“Planting fruit trees is a great idea,” one student said. “It not only helps the environment, it also gives people food for years to come.”
“What can we do?” asked another.
The students were excited to talk with me about ways they could help. They called a local nursery and learned that one apple tree can give 10,000 pounds of fruit in its lifetime. They decided to hold a car wash and donate the money to help plant fruit trees in India.
The children’s enthusiasm gave life to the idea that people in different parts of the world would be willing to help each other on a grassroots level.
On that day, in Barbara Hubert’s eighth-grade class at Wilbur Junior High in Wichita, Kansas, the idea behind Trees for Life was born.
Their car wash raised $303.
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