girl scouts of the colonial coast
Girl Scout Ambassador Jessica has earned the Girl Scout
Gold Award, the highest honor and achievement a girl can earn in Girl Scouts.
For her Gold Award, “Trantwood School Supply Drive,” Jessica
helped make a lasting impact on students and teachers in her community by
creating and stocking a school supply closet with essential school items. The
supplies, she said, would be instrumental in helping to set students up for
success when they start school. Jessica placed donation boxes around the
community to gather items which helped to increase the number of school
supplies in the closet. She gathered more than 600 supplies, allowing the
closet to be fully stocked.
“This project opened my eyes to what some families go
through to send their kids to school,” she said. “It is heartbreaking that many
kids go to school every day and don’t have anything with them for learning.”
Students who may not be fortunate enough to start school
with the supplies they need will be able to benefit from Jessica’s project,
which will be sustained by her church’s youth group, for years to come.
