An Atlanta mother, Shannon Cofrin Gaggero, said her six-year-old son had the idea of ​​organizing a lemonade stand to raise money for immigrant children separated from their parents at home. border. The stand raised $ 13,000. (Photo courtesy of Shannon Cofrin Gaggero)

Need a moral orientation? Look at the children.

Like the 6-year-old Atlanta athlete who decided to launch a lemonade stand to raise money for immigrant children separated from their parents at the border.

Mom Shannon Cofrin Gaggero wrote on her blog, StrivingParent.com, that she chatted with her 6-and-3-year-old children about what was happening at the US-Mexico border and asked how they thought they could help.

"" What about a lemonade stand? "my son suggested."

Gaggero said that she asked her local community on Facebook if anyone would be interested in helping.

The answer was overwhelming

Families close to them rushed to help immediately, wrote Gaggero.

Then people wanted to help from afar.

"I've created a" virtual lemonade stand "via Facebook to support RAICES, an organization that promotes justice by providing free, low-cost legal services to immigrant children, underserved families and refugees in the center and South Texas.

A 6 year old boy from Atlanta organized a lemonade stand to raise money for immigrant children separated from their parents at the border. Several community families helped. The stand raised $ 13,000. (Photo courtesy of Shannon Cofrin Gaggero)

She set a goal of $ 1,000 but quickly pbaded it. In the end, his family raised just over $ 13,000.

according to Gaggero ended the fundraising after reaching $ 13,000, which allowed him to quickly earn money. "Facebook fundraisers donate every two weeks once the minimum $ 100 is reached.

Gaggero told Time that his son was extremely happy with the result.

In a conversation about online messaging with All the Moms, Gaggero said she encouraged people to donate to border organizations like RAICES, but also to research their own local organizations helping immigrants.

"Action breeds hope, without action, my grief does not make sense," she writes. "How are you going to act today?"

Raising children aware of the world

Children of 3 and 6 years of the mother of Atlanta, Shannon Cofrin Gaggero, work on signs for a lemonade stand designed to support immigrant children separated from their parents at the border. (Photo courtesy of Shannon Cofrin Gaggero)

Gaggero also said All the moms that she wants people to know about this lemonade stand was not a single event.

"We have been trying to raise our children to be racially and socially conscious for several years," she said.

StrivingParent.com was created after nine people were shot in a historic black church in Charleston, SC Gaggero said that she was "horrified … by my own pbadivity when it came to justice racial and how do I raise my kids. "

#PermitPatty against the Gaggero family

In light of all the media surrounding her son's lemonade stand, Gaggero said that she wanted to juxtapose her situation with that of the #PermitPatty event over the weekend, in which a woman called the cops on an 8-year-old girl in San Francisco for selling bottles of water without a license. The woman, Alison Ettel, was white. The child was black.

(Ettel has since resigned from his position as CEO of a California cannabis company.)

"We did not have permits and played loud music, blocking sidewalks, etc. No incident," she told All the Moms. "It would not have happened if we had been black, brown, or living in a crowded community."

The six-year-old son of Atlanta's mother, Shannon Cofrin Gaggero, is holding a sign that he is coloring for a lemonade stand designed to support immigrant children separated from their parents at the border. (Photo courtesy of Shannon Cofrin Gaggero)

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