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Girl Scouts prepare emergency diaper bags for foster families
By Brittany Anas
Daily Camera,
Bolder, CO
Girl Scouts from Fireside Elementary School in Louisville are preparing emergency diaper bags for foster families who take in babies.
The bags include things that foster parents would need in the first two days with their babies, including bottles, blankets, pacifiers, diapers, wipes, nail clippers, bath soap and lotion, as well as toys and clothes.
The girls prepared about 30 bags, receiving donations from local groups and stores. They will present the emergency bags to employees from Boulder County Social Services on Tuesday, said Danielle Bernard, a troop leader.
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Put Girl Scouts in Touch with Peace Corps Volunteers
Are your Girl Scouts curious about other cultures? Connect them to the world via the Peace Corps Correspondence Match, a program that helps U.S. girls learn about other people and places directly from the a Peace Corps Volunteer.
Peace Corps volunteers serve in 70 countries on projects including agriculture, business, education, health, and the environment.
To start a dynamic two-year exchange of ideas, stories, pictures, and artifacts, visit: www.peacecorps.gov/wws/correspond or email: wwsinfo@peacecorps.gov
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Plowshares does more then just feed the homeless. Find out how you can lend a helping hand. http://www.plowsharesfeeds.org/ 707.462.8582 plowshares@pacific.net
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Spread the Bread is a global grassroots "community" bread-giving initiative that encourages people, especially our youth, to bake any kind of bread and spread that bread to honor our heroes and to help those in need. The bread is wrapped with love and tied with notes of gratitude, hope and inspiration. With a simple recipe, anyone can "bake a difference." Please consider downloading a free Bread Starter Kit today, and help us spread millions of breads~ http://spreadthebread.org/breadstarterkits.html
Girl Scouts can earn a Spread the Bread service-learning patch by completing suggested activities. ~
Home page: http://spreadthebread.org/home.html
Join the STB Yahoo group for even more ideas for bread spreading: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spreadthebread
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Here's how it works:
E-mail info@spreadthebread.org Put the word "Sisterhood" in the subject line. We'll send you an apron in the mail or let you know that you've become part of our "Sisterhood of the Traveling Apron" contest and will be receiving an apron in the mail before or after the completion of your bread project.
Once you receive the apron, and after you've finished your bread project, ask you and your fellow bakers to sign the apron with a short upbeat message. Expresss yourself--and have FUN! E-mail us when your apron is ready to travel and we'll send you the address of another bread group that will be participating in our bread project. We respectfully ask that you send the apron to them so they can sign it and send it along…and so on and so on.
As soon as we receive notification that the apron is completely covered in bread signatures, front and back, then we'll pull a name, at random, from all those that signed the apron and they'll WIN the Sisterhood of the Traveling Apron to keep, treasure, hold and bake with!! Hopefully, the apron, like the pants, will deliver good luck!! You'll have to let us know... Don't worry about the details...all the instructions will come when your apron arrrives!
Just another way to team build/bond while baking a difference... |
Engage youth of all ages in addressing hunger and poverty in their local communities, while linking them to a national youth-led movement! Souper Bowl of Caring is a simple Season of Service project that’s transforming Super Bowl Weekend into a movement of giving and service. Groups across the country participate in Souper Bowl of Caring during the week leading up to Super Bowl Sunday (January 28-February 1, 2008).
It’s Easy!
1. Register today at www.souperbowl.org to download your FREE Educational Resources
2. Learn & Collect.
Tie the study of hunger and poverty to some area of the curriculum, organize a service project and collection of canned goods or other items for a nonprofit in your community that provides direct services to those in need.
Report your total to Souper Bowl of Caring so your amounts can be added to the national tally. (Each item counts as $1.00)
Challenge Youth to Explore Questions Like:
Why are people hungry and homeless in our community?
How can we help?
What are some organizations we can partner with to meet important community needs and influence real change?
In 2007, through the Souper Bowl of Caring, over 14,000 groups and an estimated 140,000 youth united to generate more than $8 million in donations to help their neighbors in need.
Sheree Muse, Director of School Relations
Souper Bowl of Caring
302 Berkshire Dr.,
Columbia, SC 29223
Phone 803-788-3746
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You can send hand made or printed greeting cards (get well, thanks, words of support, NOT holiday cards) to
Operation Quiet Comfort
PO Box 700325
Plymouth, MI 48170
These are sent directly to wounded soldiers, marines, etc. overseas recovering in military hospital in Afghanistan and Iraq. Cards should be signed with a short personal message. They do not need envelopes, but if envelopes are enclosed DO NOT seal them. Please, no puffy paint, glitter or anything that could get into the wounds. |
<We had all our camping gear and supplies since their first year of
brownies. Then good old Hurricane Katrina ( had 26ft. of water in my home)
and Rita (had 8ft. of water) came and took everything. So my thing now is
the girls are trying to start all over again after 6 years of buying and
saving. I dont want to tell them NO because they love camping. So a
restarting we will go :)>
Now is our chance to do what we do best...sisters helping sisters.
If any one/troop would like to help this GS group restock their camping
supplies, contact:
Tanya Palazzalo
Br 272, Jr 278, Jr 1058, Ca 519 Leader
Da 267, Br 271, Da 128, Br 158 Co - Leader
Girl Scout 627 & 628 Service Unit Manager
Girl Scout Down In Da Parish Day Camp Director
Contact her at stbernard628su@yahoo.com and put St. Bernard Girl Scouts in
the Subject line. |
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