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So, this made my dark, icy heart thaw, and a tear come to my eye, so of course yall have to shed tears as well!
For the 1st time in this country and in it's history, a Girl Scout troop has been set up and created to serve homeless women and girls. Girl Scout Troop 6000 serves girls and women in New York and was created back in February by Giselle Burgess, who's a homeless woman that serves as community engagement specialist for Girl Scouts of Greater New York. She started the troop out of a Long Island City Sleep Inn which has been converted into a 10 floor homeless shelter housing 100 homeless families. Burgess' organization pays for the girls' monthly dues, starter kits, and covers the cost of membership fees. Troop 6000 currently has a membership of 23 girls that are kindergarten age all the way up to high school students. The troop meets weekly to organize and complete community service projects that benefit their community. There are plans to grow the troop and provide their services to more homeless girls in New York. I'm sure alot of yall were either Girl Scouts or Boy Scouts, I wasn't, fun fact about me, I cried my way out of doing it! Yup, sure did! A couple of my family members took me to some meeting, they wanted me to join, and guess who was not in the mood for that...this chick! Anywho, since I was never a part of the Girl Scouts, I guess I never really understood how important it can be for girls. I always thought it was about the cookies and something parents can have their kids do on the weekends. So, here's where the tear came from, the mission behind this particular troop is that these girls and the women associated with the troop may move around, change shelters, etc, There's this uncertainty when you're living in these shelters, but seeing their friends that are going through the exact same thing, it creates some form of stability for them and it shows them that they're no different from anybody else. I think it's a beautiful thing for not only the kids, but also I think for the parents who may feel some sort of way that they can't give their child what they would like to give them, but I'm sure seeing the happiness exude from their children makes up for what they can't give.
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