9-year-old selling lemonade raises $6,000 in 2 hours to help pay his brother's medical bills
Zameena Mejia
5 Hours Ago

When nine-year-old Andrew Emery of South Carolina learned that his baby brother Dylan was sick, he offered to help his parents cover mounting health care costs by starting a lemonade stand. He set up shop at a local truck dealership and, in just two hours, raised nearly $6,000.

"I'm gonna spend it on doctor's bills and stuff, and buy him a teddy bear too," Andrew tells his local Greenwood, South Carolina, paper, The Index-Journal. "I just want to help Dylan. He's my baby brother."

Andrew's six-month-old brother Dylan has Krabbe disease, a rare and potentially terminal neurological condition, so his parents have had to take off from work and travel with Dylan to see specialists at the Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Andrew Emery, 9, selling $1 lemonade and cupcakes to raise money for his ill baby brother.
Photo courtesy of Emery family
Andrew Emery, 9, selling $1 lemonade and cupcakes to raise money for his ill baby brother.

Two weeks ago, joined by his family and friends, Andrew sold dollar-cups of lemonade, as well as cupcakes, stickers, wristbands and t-shirts.

The Emery family also raised $1,300 through a local benefit concert and over $33,000 of their $40,000 goal via a GoFundme campaign. Other community organizations have launched fundraisers to chip in, too.

"You wouldn't think a lemonade stand could do that much in such a short amount of time," Andrew's father Matt Emery tells ABC News. "But with social media and different fundraisers, that's what he wanted to do, and it happened so quickly."

The Emery family was not available to respond to CNBC Make It's request for comment.

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Andrew Emery, age nine, at the fundraiser he recently held for his brother Dylan. Family photo, used with permission.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/04/9-year-o...hers-bills.html


Uh oh I sense some toxic masculinity in the making