Fighting Childhood Cancer One Cup At a Time

[syndicaster id=’5822565′]
TUPELO, Miss. (WCBI) — Some Tupelo residents want to fight childhood cancer, one cup at a time.

That is why they held up signs along West Jackson Street on a hot summer day offering motorists a cool glass of lemonade for a donation to Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer.

The Tupelo group hoped to raise 900 dollars for the foundation which was started by a child cancer victim. This is the fourth year they have been doing this fundraiser.

Rhonda Judson was one of the volunteers.

“It started in 2004. It was a child named Alex Scott and she had cancer and her hope for the future was to raise a million dollars and she started the lemonade stand and unfortunately she passed away but her parents carried on the tradition and it became a nationwide event,” Judson explains.

Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation has to date raised more than 100-million dollars to fund more than 475 pediatric cancer research projects across the country.

Childhood cancer is the leading cause of death by disease in children under the age of 15 in the U.S.