Boys’ lemonade stand raises thousands for Yemen crisis – BBC News

Six year-old Ayaan and Mikaeel, along with their community, have raised more than £37,000 for the Yemen crisis.

With the ongoing conflict in Yemen tens of thousands of lives have been lost.

An estimated 24m people, equivalent to 80% of the country’s population, are now in need of humanitarian aid to survive. The scale of this crisis is the largest in the world, according to Unicef.

When best friends Ayaan and Mikaeel from Redbridge, east London, learnt about this they set up a lemonade stand to raise funds because they wanted to help.

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4 thoughts on “Boys’ lemonade stand raises thousands for Yemen crisis – BBC News”

  1. This is a great cause to some but should it be regulated???
    Or do we go on how adoring they are, according to ITV NEWS! According to various websites, its not that regulated! Should it be the case that they should so we know what we are intaking or there is a recourse so we know what we have consumed so we know for further use or investigation incase of problems?

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  2. What might help would be if the UK gov. among others,
    Stop selling the arms which are killing so many to the countries,
    Saudi Arabia Included,
    In the first place…

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