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In April, the lockdown in Morris Township was coming to an end. Matthew Sullivan watched his1neighbors looking out their windows. Returning to the workplace, they would have little time to2their lawn(草坪).

Sullivan, an energetic 14-year-old, saw the3of lawn care. Thus, he had an brilliant idea in his mind. To meet the4, Sullivan started his own business, and named it Leaf-It-To-Us, in which he5a group of able-bodied 13- and 14-year-olds to do lawn work involving weeding, leaf-blowing, planting and fence-painting.

Last Saturday, Sullivan and his partners6the local charity Help Morris NOW a $1,000 check that they had earned. "What the Leaf-It-To-Us kids had done 7me," Nestor Bedoya, the founder of Help Morris NOW, said. "When they came up to me and said ‘we are presenting you with this8', I couldn't have 9those kids at their age, doing what they're doing, with the purpose of helping others. "

Though the company had10given its earnings to St. Jude Children 's Research Hospital, this season it11its causes. "Now we've gone12, so we're helping out people in our community,"Sullivan said.

Sullivan13that they have made more than $5,000 in total since this April. Last year, they completed around two to three jobs a week. This year, they've14to two jobs a day.

They plan to keep the lawn care business running so that they can maintain their15giving.