Belong & Contribute
Just being a kid
13-17
Local girl raising money for charity by selling lemonade
Photo and reporting by
WBRZ
Avery, 13, spent twelve hours running her lemonade stand at two different spots on one Friday, pricing cups between two and four dollars with a thousand-dollar goal, all going to the Baton Rouge Children's Advocacy Center. She's been doing this every year for four years now, since she was nine.
Two sets of hands
Brandy helped her daughter build the stand and mix the lemonade from scratch, and when she asked Avery why she wanted to do this, she just repeated back what the kid told her: she wanted to make a difference.
Why we picked this one
Four years running a lemonade stand for charity sounds like a lot until you break it down. It's one stand, one recipe, one Friday a year, and a number written on a sign. Avery didn't start with twelve hours and two locations, she started at nine years old with a pitcher and a goal, and it just kept happening every summer after that. The part worth stealing isn't the stamina, it's the habit: pick a place the money goes, put a number on it, and do it again next year.
Before the first pitcher gets mixed, pick the number and the place it's going, out loud, so your kid can say it back to a stranger buying a cup. When the stand closes, count every dollar of profit and hand it over, all of it, not a cut. Then find out what it actually paid for, a supply, an hour of somebody's time, a piece of equipment, and tell your kid that part too.
Read the full story at
WBRZ
Where it happened:
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Somewhere in your kitchen there's a pitcher and a bag of sugar, and somewhere in your kid there's a cause they'd pick if you asked them. You don't need four years of Fridays, you need one Saturday and a number on a sign.