PHOENIX (3TV / CBS 5) – A 9-year-old girl from Phoenix opened her own lemonade stand – with biscuits and brownies included – to raise money for animals in the zoo. “I sold cookies and lemonade and brownies to help zoos and save animals because animals became extinct from disease,” said Annika. “I care a lot about animals because they are my favorite thing to do and I didn’t want them to die.”
Annika loves animals, especially elephants.
“She has already learned everything about dealing with the earth and she has always loved animals and that’s why she wanted to take care of animals and came and asked me, begged me, begged me to give her a cookie and a lemonade “said Annika’s mother Robyn Bergquist. “She had to design everything and figure out prices and how she would decorate the table and make her own signs and she did it all.”
Annika set up the stand for two days in May and raised a total of 150 dollars. She donated $ 50 to the Phoenix Zoo and the rest to an Oregon zoo, where she first fell in love with elephants. “She has loved elephants since she knew what an elephant was and she has a lot of stuffed elephants and we always have to see them wherever we are, we have to go to the zoo and see the elephants,” said Robyn.
“It’s just because they have big, long trunks and are very adorable. I wish I could have an elephant as a pet, but they’re way too big,” added Annika.
Annika says she is donating to the Oregon Zoo because she fell in love with an elephant named Lily there. Unfortunately, Lily recently died of an illness. The donations to the zoos, she says, are in honor of Lily.
“She’s a bit shy and still got people buying things and saving animals, so we are really proud that she was ready,” said Robyn.
Annika says that in the future she may still be making a lemonade stand – as soon as the temperatures have cooled down a bit.
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