Girl
Scout Cookie Season is still underway in many communities, let’s take a moment to
learn more about the good the Girl Scouts do for their local community.
Sometimes
a chance meeting can alter your perspective on the world or people in
general. For Kayleigh, a 3-year veteran of the Girl Scouts, she was moved
to help a special group of people. She met a few soldiers who had just
returned home from Afghanistan, and they recounted to her how the toughest
things about serving in the military is the homesickness and, in some cases,
feeling unappreciated. Kayleigh immediately knew she had to lift the
spirits of our servicemen and women, and went straight to her troop to
brainstorm ideas.
After
much deliberation, Kayleigh and her troop developed a project called Hearts
from Home, and decided to create care packages to donate to soldiers stationed
overseas. Kayleigh personally visited 56 businesses to sell cookies, but
went even one step further and found a new way to sell the cookies.
Kayleigh’s
mom and troop leader, Deborah, said, “Our approach to the cookie sale was to
truly embrace what it means to be a Girl Scout. We let the cookies sell
themselves and, instead, sold what it meant to be a Girl Scout...helping load
groceries, telling everyone to have a nice day, thanking them for supporting
Girl Scouts, congratulating other Girl Scouts on a great job...just simply
paying it forward! We know the cookies will sell themselves as long as we
show the world what it means to be a Girl Scout.”
When
all was said and done, Kayleigh and her troop worked tirelessly to assemble the
packages, filled to the brim with books, puzzles, cards, and of course, Girl
Scout Cookies. The girls “adopted” 50 troop companies stationed at bases
throughout Afghanistan and shipped the packages out.
Now
there’s a lesson in community service!
So,
when you head out to a cookie booth in your community this weekend, be sure to
ask the girls what they do with their cookie money. Because, oh, what a
girl can do!