--- title: This 6-Year-Old’s Lemonade Stand Raised $13,000 for Immigrant Children Separated From Their Parents description: An Atlanta family helped raise $13,000 for families separated at the border thanks to a 6-year-old boy's idea to start a lemonade stand authors: - name: Alix Langone url: https://money.com/author/alix-langone/ at_money_since: 2018 articles: 187 covers: - Lifestyle - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Loans - Personal Finance - Pets - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology former_staff: true published: '2018-06-26T20:57:29.000Z' modified: '2024-04-17T10:39:15.000Z' section: Lifestyle tags: - Immigration - onetime word_count: 301 canonical: https://money.com/lemonade-stand-raices-immigrant-children/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![lemonade-stand-raices-atlanta](https://img.money.com/2018/06/lemonade-stand-raices-atlanta.jpg) While $13,000 may not sound like a lot of money compared to the [$20 million raised through one viral Facebook fundraiser](https://money.com/texas-raices-fundraiser-money/) — for a 6-year-old, it's not bad. When Shannon Cofrin Gaggero talked to her son about ways they could help other children [separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border](https://time.com/5317117/what-happens-children-separated-family-border/), he said, "What about a lemonade stand?" "We were like that’s a great idea, it's hot as Hades in Atlanta," Gaggero tells Money. On Sunday, Gaggero's family and some of their neighbors set up an actual lemonade stand in their hometown of Atlanta to benefit [RAICES](https://www.raicestexas.org/), a Texas-based nonprofit that provides legal and educational services for immigrants, that raised over $1,000. To raise awareness for Sunday's lemonade stand, she launched [a Facebook fundraising page](https://www.facebook.com/donate/480455815731666/485487171895197/) on June 19, which continued to virtually supplement their in-person fundraiser days after the lemonade stand ended. ![raices-atlanta-lemonade-stand-fundraiser](https://img.money.com/2018/06/raices-atlanta-lemonade-stand-fundraiser1.jpg) At first, Gaggero set a modest goal of $1,000, but within three hours, the online fundraiser hit that goal. Within six days, the family had raised more than $13,000. Gaggero decided to end the online campaign after hitting $13,000 rather than extending it because she wants the money to start helping the organization as soon as possible (Facebook fundraisers [pay out donations every two weeks](https://money.com/facebook-fundraiser-raices/) once the minimum payout amount of $100 is met). RAICES was also the beneficiary of another [viral Facebook fundraiser](https://www.facebook.com/donate/490507544717085/) which began June 16, and the donations have tripled the nonprofit's budget, according to company executives. Gaggero says her son feels proud of what they've accomplished. And even though he doesn't quite understand the depth of the family separation issue they are supporting, he still has been affected by the news. "It tugged at his heart strings," she says. 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