Maya Mikhael, 10, trying to help feed Windsor's hungry

The lemonade is free, but Maya Mikhael and her friends hope that people in Windsor will provide a donation to help hungry people in the community.

"Not a lot of people notice, but these people need help," Maya told CBC Radio's Windsor Morning, when explaining the need within her community.

A group known as Maya's Friends will be offering the lemonade outside the Real Canadian Superstore on Walker Road on both Friday and Saturday. They will be accepting cash and food donations.

"We suggest just a dollar, or two, donation," said Maya. "For a lot of people a dollar is not enough for them, but for the hungry it is enough because they've been living with nothing their whole life."

The money raised goes to helping people in the city.

"We buy canned foods for the hungry people in the City of Windsor," Maya said.

Maya got interested in helping hungry people when she was on a trip with her family across the border a few years ago.

"Once, when me and my parents went to the United States, we stopped by a McDonalds and we saw this man looking in the trash," she said on Windsor Morning.

"So, my dad went in line and I asked him if he could get a hamburger for that man because I felt really bad looking at him. And when we got it, he was so happy."

On their way back home, Maya asked her parents if she could start a lemonade stand to help raise money to feed hungry people like the man she saw in the U.S.

That began the process that saw Maya set up her lemonade stand at the Superstore. This year's event is the third year in which it has run.

At last year's event, Maya said some 1,000 cans of food were collected, along with $3,100 in donations.

"It was amazing and we thank everybody in our community that helped us," she said.