A six-year-old Surrey girl has raised more than $500 for charity, through an online and offline lemonade stand.
It all began a few months ago after Hayden Rodgers saw another girl in the United States who raised money at a lemonade stand. Hayden told her mom she wanted to follow suit and raise money for the ChildrenB次元官网网址檚 Unit at Surrey Memorial Hospital.
The idea seemed to be stuck in her mind, and she reminded her mom often.
Then, after hearing about all the victims of the B.C. wildfires, Hayden decided she would raise money for both of the causes.
Close to 50,000 people have been under evacuation orders or alerts at some point this season.
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So the family set about making a lemonade stand.
Mom Tabitha said Hayden made a list of supplies, which she bought with her own money.
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But Hayden didnB次元官网网址檛 just sell the lemonade, she helped make it.
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Tabitha then starting the online component of the fundraiser.
B次元官网网址淚 just thought with all the social media outlets out there now, like GoFundMe, to just try that and see how it works. We set up the lemonade stand, and put it all together on the Saturday night. Then we created the Facebook event page and the GoFundMe on the Sunday and within a week, we had raised more than $400 online.B次元官网网址�
And, on the day of the lemonade stand in SurreyB次元官网网址檚 City Centre area, they made another $163.
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A proud Hayden took $300 out of the money raised and donated it to Red Cross Wildfire Relief at Safeway, which matched her donation to make $600.
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The remaining money will be donated to the ChildrenB次元官网网址檚 Unit at Surrey Memorial Hospital.
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Are more lemonade stands on the horizon?
Sounds like it.
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