Haylen's Ice-Cream Shop

Haylen is a 6 year old boy who sells Ice-cream / popsicles and hot chocolate from his little stand and donates all his proceeds to the Ronald McDonald House Charities. 

How Haylen's Ice-Cream Shop came about: 

When Haylen was 5 years old had this idea to start a little Ice-Cream Shop, so one day we pulled out our tools and built a cute little stand for him. He was so anxious and excited to get started and make some money of his own. I assumed that like any other little boy he would want to earn money to buy Power Ranger toys, hockey stuff, or other toys for himself, but when I asked him what he wanted to do with the money he makes from his shop, his answer shocked me, he replied by saying, "I'm going to give all the money to the Ronald McDonald House. I will fill up my bucket and give it to them, then fill it again and again and keep giving it to them so I can help all the sick kids." 
I was amazed and so proud of my little man, it made me just as excited to help him get started on his little journey! 

For Haylen's 5th birthday we did a five for five party were each guest brought two $5 dollar bills, one that he got to keep for himself and one that he got to donate to a charity of his choice. We presented him with a bunch of different options and the RMH was the one he chose! 
He bought a monster truck for himself and got to donate $100! Then after he toured the house in Red Deer he then wanted to do more and started his icecream shop!! 

At the beginning of summer in 2015 he set a goal of rasing $2,011.00 and on July 18 he reached that goal and made his donation to the house! We then asked him if he wanted to take the rest of the summer off, and he said No, he wants to set an even higher goal, and start back at $0....

So he chose $3,009.00 as his new goal.....

5 months later he successfully achieved that goal as well! 

He is now starting 2016 off with his 3rd goal of $5,013.00. When asked why this is his new goal he replied by saying "I had to choose a number higher than my last goal so I picked $5,000 and I added 13 cuz that's Johnny Gaudreau's Hockey Number, and he's AWESOME!" lol <3


We have never had to stay at the Ronald McDonald house before. He just learned about what the house does and he knows they help sick kids stay close to their families while they recieve medical help, so he wanted to do what he could to help them out as well!

Haylens FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/Haylensshop