Warminster Middle-Schooler Honored For Volunteer Work

WARMINSTER, PA — A Warminster middle-schooler has received a national honor for her work raising money for cancer research.

Savannah Zeaman, 13, an eighth-grader at Klinger Middle School, has been named a state honoree in the a 2020 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards.

The awards program is the largest in the United State recognizing youth for volunteer community service. It honors middle and high-school students for outstanding service to others at the local, state and national level.

Zeaman has run a lemonade stand every fall for the past six years. In all, she's raised nearly $6,000 for cancer research. She launched the project to honor the memory of her kindergarten teacher, who died of cancer.

"She was an amazing teacher," Savannah said. "One day she was there, and the next she wasn't. It was the first time anyone I was close to had passed away."

She made lemonade, cookies and little flower crafts, set up a stand in front of her house, posted signs around her neighborhood and started selling. The money she earned the first two years went to the American Cancer Society.

Then, after a family member died from cancer, Savannah began donating her annual proceeds to cancer research efforts at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Last fall, she also conducted a clothing drive for families in need in conjunction with her lemonade stand.

Her goal every year is to raise more money than the last.

"I love the feeling of helping others," Zeaman said. "I have learned how many things I take for granted and how amazing it feels to share what I have with others."