“Within a matter of minutes, there were 30 pies sold,” she said.

She baked for 15 hours one day, making 32 pies and 9 crusts.

“I was wearing a black t-shirt and it was not black anymore,” Meckel said about her baking days.

Meckel ended up raising about $2,300 and donated the extra money to Save the Storks. A little more than 170 people showed up to the movie on Oct. 5.

The organization was impressed with how fast Meckel raised the money and how passionate she was about the organization. They wanted her to be an ambassador when she turned 18.

Now that she’s old enough, she’s spreading the word of the work that Save the Storks does. The organization sets up vans outside of abortion clinics, Meckel said. Save the Storks offers women free ultrasounds before they go through with a decision to abort their child.

Meckel said the abortion topic and what Save the Storks does pulls at her heartstrings. She’s passionate about it because she loves little kids and works with them. She looks up facts about abortion in her spare time so she can educate herself and others about the topic.