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11-year-old New Jersey girl opens pop-up Internet cafe to benefit Red Cross

Lucy Walkowiak, 11, of Sandy-stricken Hoboken, New Jersey, is finding a way to help others in need.

The young girl and her father, Steve, opened a pop-up internet cafe and charging station on one of the few blocks with power to help give their still-in-the-dark neighbours access to the internet and the ability to charge their phones.

In return, Lucy asks for a small donation to the Red Cross.

Steve insists the initiative was all his daughter's idea:

"Lucy does a lot of community service through her school, so this is on par with what she's been learning," he told PhillyMag.com.

Lucy's good deed makes her just one of the many local heroes helping out their battery-dead neighbours during Sandy's aftermath.

Redditor RuffDesperado uploaded a photo of a good Samaritan's makeshift charging station outside his home that welcomes strangers to plug in their gadgets as they await their power to return.

The Occupy Sandy Relief NYC campaign started an OWS bike generator service "to charge battery-depleted phones and get people back in contact in New York City," Digital Journal reports.

A member of that same relief campaign has opened his Hell's Kitchen apartment as a charging station, too.

Duracell has trucks in Battery Park and in Hoboken where New Yorkers can charge their phones for free.

Perhaps most notable in generosity, Cory Booker, Newark's mayor, has been inviting his neighbours without power to hang out at his place.

"There is someone at my house now (Eric). I've got space u can relax in, charge devices & even a working DVD player. Come by@my_serenelove," he tweeted yesterday to a neighbour.

Booker even bought lunch for the 12 people charging phones and relaxing at his home.