07/09/2026
At just five years old, Juliette Lamour learned one of life's biggest lessons:
Even a small act of kindness can travel farther than you ever imagine.
In early 2010, a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, leaving millions of people in desperate need of help. Thousands of miles away in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, young Juliette and her little sister Sophie heard about the tragedy and wanted to do something.
The sisters had a special piggy bank they called their ""sharing"" bank—a place where they saved money they hoped could help others.
So they made a decision most adults would struggle to make.
They took the entire thing.
The girls carried the piggy bank to a local hockey game where the Red Cross was collecting donations and poured out every coin they had saved.
The total:
$61.38.
It wasn't a fortune.
But to them, it was everything.
They gave it all to people they would probably never meet, simply because they wanted to help.
Thirteen years later, Juliette was 18 years old, working as a pharmacy assistant and celebrating her birthday weekend. While stopping to buy ice cream for her grandfather, she called him to ask which flavor he wanted.
But instead of answering, he gave her an unexpected suggestion:
""You just turned 18. Go buy a lottery ticket.""
Juliette had never purchased one before.
But she decided to try.
The next day at work, everyone was talking about a shocking piece of news: someone in town had won the lottery jackpot.
Almost jokingly, Juliette mentioned that she had bought a ticket.
Her boss scanned it on a phone.
Then came the unbelievable moment.
The ticket was worth $48 million.
The little girl who once emptied her piggy bank to help strangers had suddenly become the youngest lottery winner in Canadian history.
But despite the life-changing fortune, one thing remained the same.
Juliette still kept that old piggy bank.
The same one that once held $61.38.
Because long before she ever won millions, she had already discovered something far more valuable:
The power of giving.