Brownie Troop Delivers Smiles to Soldiers
Girl Scouts ask customers to purchase cookies and donate them to local heroes and military soldiers through our Cookies from the Heart program. Brownie […]
Using Gold to Make the World a Better Place
As Girl Scouts end of year celebrations begin we wanted to spotlight the 84 girls who earned membership into an elite group—Girl […]
Girl Scout Raises Awareness of Dating Violence through ‘Project A.L.E.R.T.’
When choosing the project issue for her Girl Scout Gold Award, Girl Scout Meghan wanted to focus on an issue that everyone is impacted by or at least hears about, but is rarely talked about openly: dating violence. “Domestic violence and dating safety is a big deal and it impacts most communities, but people rarely talk about it openly,” Meghan said. She said she heard about a relative of a girl in her community who was killed as a result of an […]
Girl Scout Gold Award Provides Resources to Children of Diabetics
Growing up with a parent who has diabetes can be confusing and scary for a child. That’s why Girl Scout Elizabeth, who is a child of a diabetic parent, dedicated her Gold Award project to creating learning resources for children of diabetic parents. “When you’re young and you have a parent who is diabetic you don’t necessarily understand why something is wrong and you can find yourself in situations that can be scary and you don’t know what to do,” she said. […]
Girl Scout Creates ‘Baskets of Hope’ for Homeless
Girl Scout Megan isn’t a stranger to helping to the homeless–every year she volunteers with her church at a homeless shelter, serving food and talking with people who come in for a meal. She also delivered bag lunches to homeless in Baltimore City with her youth group. When she began thinking about what to do for her Girl Scout Gold Award project, she decided to take her volunteer work to help the homeless a step further. “Through my volunteer work I was […]
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