The Pink Lemonade Stand Challenge makes its way to Indiana

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) – The nationwide Pink Lemonade Stand Problem was based in 2016, by 7-year-old Brynne Rhodes, in honor of her mom, Kim, who was being handled for breast most cancers on the time.

In line with organizers, final yr, the Pink Lemonade Stand Problem made its technique to 36 states. This yr, college students at Notre Dame College “made a stand” to assist put an finish to breast most cancers. Placing up the primary Pink Lemonade Stand within the state of Indiana.

NFL Corridor of Famer, Jerome Bettis, a present scholar at Notre Dame College stopped by to indicate his assist for the trigger.

Bettis, a member of the Breast Most cancers Analysis Basis’s Board, had a particular connection to the Breast Most cancers analysis, as his mom, Gladys, survived her battle with the illness.

“Attempting to create that consciousness, increase the funds, to assist attempt to create that remedy, in order that, perhaps it’s not my mom, perhaps it’s another person’s mom or another person’s father or mother that’s saved, and I believe finally, that’s the purpose in all of this. We don’t need to see this have an effect on anybody in such a lethal approach,” Bettis mentioned.

For extra info on the way to begin a Pink Lemonade Stand, or to learn the way it began, click on right here.

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