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Members of AEPi at the University of North Texas.
An eight year old little girl whose favorite colors were blue and purple, favorite movie was Scooby Doo, and loved to play soccer was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer shortly before her first birthday.
Her name was Alexandra “Alex” Scott.
On her first birthday, the doctors informed her parents that if she prevailed over her cancer, she probably would never walk again, but just two weeks later she moved her leg.
By her second birthday she was crawling and able to stand with the help of leg braces, appearing to be beating the odds. The next year her tumors started showing their ugly faces again.
The day after her fourth birthday and after receiving a stem cell transplant, Alex told her mother, “When I get out of the hospital, I want to have a lemonade stand.”
Later that year, she had her first lemonade stand, raising $2,000. For the next few years she raised a total of one million dollars before the cancer seized her life at the age of eight.
Alpha Epsilon Pi, a recently new Fraternity at the University of North Texas, is hosting their second lemonade stand to raise money for the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation. From November third through fifth, members of AEPi will be out on Campus Green at UNT accepting donations and will have canned lemonade and candy for those who participate.
They hope to meet or exceed their $2,500 goal, more than doubling the $1,000 raised last school year.
“This support from the Foundation is truly invaluable and speeding the process towards finding a cure for children’s cancer, while preserving the memory of a beautiful little [child],” Joseph L. Lasky III, M.D at Mattel Children’s Hospital of UCLA was reported as saying.
Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation works directly with doctors, researchers and nurses to “identify the specific challenges [children] face in bringing new treatments to and caring for children with cancer.”
“We love the money that jingles, but we would love the money that folds,” said Evan Kassem, President of AEPi at UNT.
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