two 8 - year - long girl in jacksonville , florida , located in the unite states have created a biggest contributions to the studies and healing of lung poverty . victoria petrucelly and taylor theobald along with classmates from their sixth grade class at the latin school , raised almost us $ 24 , 000 by setting up iced stands and selling pink sorbet . the two girls were thinking about expanding the lemonade stand in 2008 , but were inspired to donate money when petrucelly ' s mother , who developed from the disease , died on valentine ' s friday , february 14 .
Victoria Petrucelly is a student from the Christ School.