girl scouts of the colonial coast
Girl Scout Ambassador Yasmin has earned the Girl Scout Gold
Award, the highest honor and achievement a girl can earn in Girl Scouts.
For her Gold Award, she helped her community take charge of
children’s wellness by developing a 3-week program, “The Importance of Health:
Mind, Body, & Spirit,” that was hosted at Chesapeake’s Empowerment
Counseling Center. The classes she organized and led showed school-age children
how to be healthy physically, emotionally and mentally.
“I know that health can lead to academic success, physical
success, mental wellbeing, and spiritual rewards,” Yasmin said. “All these
factors, if developed early in life, should lead to a lifetime of success and
wellbeing. I want this measure of success for children no matter where they
dwell.”
Her project was geared toward the children in her community
because she believes that children should know about healthy nutrition, fun
ways to get exercise and understand how to reduce stigmas surrounding mental
health in order to live a happy, successful life and have access to health
resources in their community.
Yasmin learned how to identify problems in her community,
research solutions, and present that information in an impactful way thanks to
her Gold Award project.
The Chesapeake Redevelopment and Housing Authority
continues to utilize and sustain her educational program within the community.
