Sweet Way to Help Homeless Girls

Your chance to help them through the Girl Scouts

Angie Mangino
2 min readMar 19, 2023

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2 yellow packages of lemon ups and 2 green packages with girls of thin mints Girl Scout cookies
Photo by author

The Girl Scouts cookie season began March 1st so it’s time to order your favorite cookies.

Why not help homeless girls when doing so?

My cookies ordered online to support Troop 6000 just arrived!

These cookies will taste even better to me this year knowing that I made a difference by supporting them.

This Girl Scouts program offers a much-needed lifeline to homeless girls in New York City.

Most people tend to see the homeless as this faceless nameless group panhandling in our cities. What we forget are the women with children in the shelters.

With meetings in the shelters the girls make friends, earn badges, and have fun. Through Troop 6000 they receive a sense of community and stability in an unsettled time.

When they move to permanent housing the support continues with a Transition Initiative that helps connect them to their new home community.

B.R. Shenoy shared:

“Another way Troop 6000 helps its girls is through cookie sales…

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