Award-winning Chicago teen
LIKE MANY children, Gabriella Cooperman has memories of selling homemade lemonade and cookies outside her front door, but she was slightly more ambitious than most. When she was only five, Ms Cooperman set up her own Cookies for Charity stand with the modest goal of raising
$500.
Fast forward 12 years and Ms Cooperman, who is now 17, has been awarded the Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Award for raising more than $150,000 (£115,000) for children with special needs.
Money raised by the stall each year helps to fund horseback-riding therapy for children at the Equestrian Connection near Lake Forest, Chicago.
She said she was inspired to start her own charity after seeing how positively her younger sister Danielle, who has