Boy, 9, raises $6,000 for sick brother at lemonade stand

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In this Saturday, May 26, 2018, photo, Andrew Emery collects contributions at a lemonade stand he placed in Greenwood, S. C., to advantage his baby brother, Dylan. Toby, the 9-year-old South Carolina boy marketing lemonade to help his sick child brother, has raised nearly $6, 000 in two hours. (Adam Benson/The Index-Journal via AP)

GREENWOOD, S. C. –   A 9-year-old South Carolina boy marketing lemonade to help his sick infant brother has raised nearly $6, 000 in two hours.

Andrew Emery wants to help his parents pay money for the medical bills for their little brother Dylan. The infant is affected with Krabbe disease, a rare and often deadly neurological condition.

So on Saturday, Emery spent 2 hours at used truck car dealership Southern Wheels in Greenwood, marketing lemonade and #TeamDylan t-shirts. He or she raised $5, 860 to be put into $1, 300 raised at a Fri benefit concert and $5, six hundred from a GoFundMe site for their brother, currently in a Pittsburgh medical center.

Andrew  told The particular Index-Journal of Greenwood   that he wants to buy his child brother a teddy bear along with having to pay his medical bills.