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Jadyn Robicheaux was on Park Avenue in Houma on Wednesday helping locals beat the heat.
With a pink and yellow lemonade stand featuring a sign containing the virtues of “hope, love and faith,” Jadyn, a 10-year-old Houma native, set up shop outside of Zack’s Frozen Yogurt to offer customers a variety of drink flavors. There were both pink and regular lemonade available, as well as peach, raspberry and tangerine juices to add for those so inclined. By Jadyn’s count, the regular and peach combo was her favorite.
While the lemonade helped in the battle against the sun, the money Jadyn made would help others in a far more serious challenge. Jadyn was donating all her proceeds to the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center at Terrebonne General Medical Center. According to her, she and her family set up the stand multiple times a year to raise money for different nonprofit organizations.
“I just really wanted to help others, so my dad and me just built this lemonade stand,” Jadyn said.
The money raised for this cause hits home for the Robicheauxs. While Jadyn said she knows “plenty” of people who’ve had cancer, she is actually recovering from her own battle with the illness. Jadyn finished treatment for leukemia this past December after being diagnosed almost three years ago. Jeff Robicheaux, Jadyn’s father and her partner in the stand construction, said the family has been doing lemonade stands at Jadyn’s school Houma Christian School each September, which is Children’s Cancer Awareness Month. Jeff said the lemonade sales are their way of paying forward the support they received when Jadyn was ill.
“That’s why we’re doing it, to raise awareness for childhood cancer and to give back to others, because people really helped us out when she got sick,” Jeff said.
