Spring 2022 Lead & Learn

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Community Service: A Girl Scout Cornerstone Girls who engage in community service develop a strong sense of responsibility for others. Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri provides girls with opportunities to serve, to connect with their communities and to reflect on their experience to better understand themselves, area needs and their role in making the world a better place.

Introducing Community Service Partners

Change the World with Small Acts of Kindness

Community Service Partners are organizations looking for Girl Scouts to provide service to their organization. These partners will be listed in future publications and on our website for easy access when your troop is looking to do a service project. Stay tuned to the upcoming newsletters for more information

Have you worked with any agencies that regularly need volunteers and would recommend them to your fellow Girl Scouts?

There are lots of fun ways to get your troop involved in making the world a better place, and community service is a perfect way for girls to dig their hands into issues that concern them the most in their own neighborhoods. Many hands make light work, and there are a variety of volunteer needs that work for groups of all ages:

Please send your Community Service Partner suggestions to Heather Eyster at heyster@girlscoutsem.org for consideration.

when the Community Service Partner webpage launches.

• Assemble hygiene kits to share with a women’s shelter

• Collect art supplies to share with a local children’s hospital

• Send cards to military troops overseas or deliver to a local nursing home

• Create birthday boxes for a local food pantry

Most importantly, ask the girls what they think about volunteering in the community and be ready to take notes. Chances are, they will have lots of ideas to share!

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