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I love this boy!!
http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/zacks-shack-lemonade-buys-wheelchairs-for-worlds-poor/
Zacks Shack: Boys Lemonade and Cookies Buy Wheelchairs for Worlds Poor
by Good News Network - June 29, 2014
After a 6-year-old boy saw his school collecting money to buy wheelchairs for a charity that sends them overseas to developing countries, he had the idea that maybe he could buy his own wheelchair for donating. He couldnt even pronounce the word philanthropist, but he became the poster boy definition of one.
Zach Francoms lemonade and cookie stand is now in its fifth year of charity work and his efforts have to date paid for nearly 250 wheelchairs.
The annual event, staged over a single weekend around spring break in front of his familys home, has become a Provo, Utah institution.
This past April, Zack sold 350 dozen cookies baked by his mom, Nancy Bird, and 80 quarts of lemonade, earning $5,300 enough to buy another 37 wheelchairs (basic models now cost $143), which are shipped by LDS Philanthropies to Guatemala, Guam and 53 other countries, where a wheelchair can often cost more than a years wages.
His fundraising hub is online at ItFeelsGreatToGive.com and on the Zachs Shack Facebook page.
Video at link~
xfundy
(5,105 posts)Wonder how much the mormon "prophets" are taking off the profits.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)WOW!!!
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)For uplifting news!