Community Service
Community Service
Girl Scouts pride themselves on helping their communities and people in need through any challenge that comes their way. For more than a century, Girl Scouts just like you have helped create positive change both locally and worldwide – from helping women exercise their right to vote in 1920, to launching Eco-Action programs during the 1970s, to showing senior citizens they were not alone during the recent pandemic. Girl Scouts always find ways to live by the Girl Scout Law and to make the world a better place. In honor of this legacy, we create Council-Wide Community Service Project patches that our Girl Scouts can earn.
Birthday Bags Service Project | October 1-31
In honor of Juliette Gordon Low's birthday, help Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois create birthday bags for localfood pantries throughout October. This council-wide community service project will run from October 1st to October 31st, ending on Juliette Gordon Low's Birthday. There is no cost for this program.
By celebrating birthdays in the community, this service project focuses on making a positive impact by helping those in need. A birthday is a big deal! A day of celebrating the coming year with exciting opportunities. We want to share that excitement with others by sharing that we are thinking of them on their birthday. This is a memorable experience for Girl Scouts, and everyone involved.
Troops will help their local community by creating bags full of items needed to celebrate a birthday to donate to local food pantries. This project focuses on serving others by making them feel special on an important day, their birthday!
Donations for the project should be collected during the month of October and can be taken to local food pantries found in your community.
Ideas for items to donate in birthday bags: Birthday cake mix, icing, candles cake pans (from dollar store), gift bag to hold items, streamers, balloons birthday tablecloth, plates, napkins, etc, birthday card signed by troop. Troop can exchange or add other items to create their own unique spin on a birthday bag for their local food pantry! This program is virtual and can be completed at your own pace.
