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June 2013
Daisies earn badge for helping less fortunate By Christina Fuoco-Karasinski
Girl Scouts are told to be honest, fair, friendly and helpful. Daisy Troop 751 in Chandler accomplished just that when the girls collected 500 hygiene products for Chandler Christian Community Center. “We knew we wanted to do some sort of collection drive during the year,” says leader Nicole Hastings, whose troop is based at Santan Elementary School. “Collecting hygiene items was a little bit different than the usual collection drives than we’ve seen.” The girls collected the items a variety of ways. They made posters to pin up around the school, and put fliers in teachers’ mailboxes so instructors could hand them to all of their students. “The girls put one of the posters on a box in the front office,” says Hastings, whose daughter, Emily, is a Daisy. “The Santan students brought some supplies or donations to the front office and put them in the box there.” The Daisies canvassed their neighborhoods with fliers telling their friends that they would be around the following weekend to collect items. “We did a lemonade stand, too,” Hastings says. “That was the girls’ idea. At the beginning of the year, we asked
CLEANING UP: Daisy Troop 751 in Chandler recently organized a hygiene product collection drive in their neighborhoods and at Santan Elementary, where all members attended first grade. Pictured left to right, back row: Ryan Fisk, Marlee Raymond, Claire Tammelleo and Taylor Pressley. Left to right, front row: Natalie Cline, Ashlyn Sampley, Alexis O’Neal, Abby Loutzenheiser, Julia Pitman, Macy Pisano, Emily Hastings, Makenna Stretz and Quinn Stewart. Submitted photo
them what kind of projects they wanted to do throughout the year. “Them being all 6 and 7 year olds, they like to do lemonade stands. They really wanted to do them.” The girls used the money to buy extra hygiene products, and separated the items—shampoo, conditioner, deodorant, toothpaste and a couple of toothbrushes— into gallon baggies. “We had 45 filled bags and we had three or four other
boxes with just the items that wouldn’t fit in the bags also donated.” Next school year, the girls and their leaders will move up to Brownies. “We’re finding our way together,” Hastings says. “I’m glad we have very supportive parents.” Christina Fuoco-Karasinski is the editor of the SanTan Sun News. She can be reached at christina@santansun.com.
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