Young Boy Starts Lemonade Stand To Fund His Own Adoption & The Results Are Amazing

Publish date
Wednesday, 27 Apr 2016, 9:52AM

Hard work pays off! And Tristan Jacobson is proof of that.

Donnie Davis has been a part of 9-year-old Tristan's life since he was a baby, when his biological mother was no longer able to care for him. Davis and her husband brought Tristan into their home and she became his legal guardian in 2014, even though they didn't have the money to legally adopt him.

Despite the family cutting back on other expenses, the fees required for adoption remained out of reach — so on Monday, the young boy took matters into his own hands: He set up a lemonade stand at his Springfield, Mo. home to raise the $10,000 the family needs to make the adoption official.

Overwhelmingly, $7,100 has been raised! $6,500 of which came from the lemonade alone and the other chunk came from a yard sale the family set up. Davis also set up a YouCaring page to raise additional funds, and as of Tuesday, the number has already jumped to over $18,000.

"In mine and my husband's hearts, that's our son," Davis told KY3. "Nobody can tell us any different. He wants to be legally ours."

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