Information About Lemon-Aid4Life

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Learn how Lemon-Aid 4 Life empowers young entrepreneurs through mentorship, education, and community engagement.

we believe that we can change the world together

Leroy Hayward III and his parents introduce Lemon-AID4Life, a nonprofit dedicated to equipping young special needs children with hearing loss, like Leroy, with the tools to become successful entrepreneurs, with their parents’ support.

Inspired by Leroy’s LipSmack’n Lemonade, this program also supports Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital and New Orleans Children’s Hospital, both of which provide life-saving care to children daily.

Mission:

To empower individuals from age five (5) to young adulthood who have developmental delays due to hearing loss, providing them with the means to become positive thinkers, innovative youth, productive citizens, inspirational leaders, and successful entrepreneurs, enabling them to have an optimistic outlook on life.

Vision:

Lemon-AlD4Life’s vision is to instill confidence, discipline, self-worth and a giving heart into children at an early age, through an interactive, fun, hands-on entrepreneurship-learning program; helping them turn their special needs into a special gift to enable these children to be successful entrepreneurs impacting communities, society, and future generations. Lemon-AID4Life wants to change the mindset of special-needs children and their parents in fostering them to pursue their goals and dreams of becoming successful business owners, future leader, motivators, and community sponsors.

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Goals and Objectives

Lemon-AID4Life helps with self-awareness (Children learn about themselves).
Lemon-AID4Life teaches children to Never Ever Quit or give up because of life's setbacks or submit to that little word "'NO".
Lemon-AID4Life exposes children to the expertise of positive mentors and successful entrepreneurs.
Lemon-AID4Life helps children identify Bad and Good Choices to build character.

Lemon-AID4Life provides goal-setting examples for the child to have hands-on goal set including vision boards for life and business.
Lemon-AID4Life provides help with innovative thinking so each child can have a product he/she can market in the real world and be able to engage with the public through effective communication.
Lemon-AID4Life teaches children to give back to other children and to the community (Children's Hospital Baton Rouge and New Orleans and Our Lady of The Lake Children's Hospital).