Girl Scouts are there with care
Girl Scout Unit 652 includes girls from Castle Pines to Larkspur and Sedalia to Franktown. On April 26, they visited with Bin Blessed to learn about their beneficiary, There With Care, and also decorated grocery delivery bags and prepared activity bags.
On April 26 at the Douglas County Library – Castle Rock, Girl Scout Unit 652 met with Bin Blessed (BB), a Castle Pines-based nonprofit, to learn about and help BB’s 10-year beneficiary, There With Care (TWC).
TWC helps families with critically ill children, neonatal intensive care unit babies, and teens facing a mental health crisis by bringing monthly bins of goodies and care items to families.
After the BB presentation, the Girl Scouts decorated brown grocery bags to be used for grocery deliveries to the TWC families. They also assembled activity bags for TWC patients and siblings with items they collected on their own, including toys, games and activities.
When people want to support a Girl Scout troop through the purchase of cookies but don’t want cookies to take home, they can purchase and “donate” to the troop/unit’s HomeTown Hero. The entire unit selected Bin Blessed as its HomeTown Hero. As such, boxes of cookies which were purchased and donated back to the Girl Scouts became sweet additions to all of the other items shared with TWC families.
“Bin Blessed was so honored to have our Bin Babe, Toni Sickenger, share her Girl Scout troop with us. They were so wonderful and loved our Bin Blessed /There With Care mission as did all the moms in attendance,” concluded BB founder, Cy Deboer.
Unit 652 includes 11 troops from Castle Pines to Larkspur, from north to south; and Sedalia to Franktown, from east to west.
Article by Elean Gersack; photo courtesy of Bin Blessed and Girl Scout Unit 652
