A 10-year-old Bay area girl is hoping to raise money with a lemonade stand to help her family rebuild their home.
Alyssa Delasala says she came up with the idea after watching her parents struggle to pay contractors to fix their home. The family says many of those contractors fell through.
The family’s home on Groveland Drive in Lutz burned down two years ago in a fire.
Alyssa wrote a letter to a popular radio show to advertise for her lemonade stand this Saturday. Part of the letter read: “I am having a lemonade and treat stand to raise money for my house. It burned down two years ago and the contractors my mommy and daddy hired to rebuild it took most of our money that we got from the insurance people.”
Her parents say they’re determined to save the home that Alyssa and her older brother have grown up in.
“I just didn’t want to walk away," said Alyssa’s mother, Jenm Delasala. "We bought the house right before our daughter was born. So you know it’s our family home and we just didn’t want to let it go.”
But the family admits it’s been tempting to give up with all the bills mounting.
“Just to get to where the house was and now it’s flooring, cabinets -- so far, it’s been atleast $50,000,” said Alyssa’s dad, Joe.
So their 10-year-old is hoping her lemonade stand will help with those bills. Alyssa and her older brother already built the stand and are ready for this Saturday’s sale.
“Our motto is when life gives you lemons, make lemonade,” Alyssa said.
It’s a motto they’re hoping will help get them home.
The lemonade stand is this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the family’s home at 2217 Groveland Drive in Lutz. If you can’t make it to the get a glass of lemonade, the family has a gofundme account.