12-year-old Lauren Roach and 11-year-old Landry Nelon decided they wanted to help the families of the slain Dallas police officers, so for two days they operated a lemonade stand with the help of  9-year-old Emmy Roberts and her 8-year-old sister Lily.  Ironically their success wasn’t in selling lemonade.  As Lauren’s mother explained:

“People were just driving by.  They didn’t want lemonade, they didn’t want anything, just giving them 20s, 50s, you name it, just giving money. And everybody saying, ‘Back the blue, back the blue, we support Dallas, we support families, help Dallas become a better place.'”

At the end of the two days, the girls dropped off a check for $10,000 to aid the families of the victims.

Lauren Roach said:

We felt really bad for all the victims’ families.  At first we thought we would get about $100, but after we got to about $5,000, we realized we could really get this really high.  We just really feel that every little penny counted.”

Total contributions from all sources have not been totaled up as of yet,  but it is estimated that it’s in the hundreds of thousands.