Silver Awards/Gold Hearts

Silver Awards/Gold Hearts

 

     Two cadets from Girl Scout Troop 185 presented their Silver Award Projects to Wayside Christian Mission's Chaplain Mike on a recent Friday evening at St. Pauls Church in Louisville's Pleasure Ridge Park neighborhood.  Belle R and Chiara L, two amazing teens with engaging smiles and an abundance of creative talents, demonstrated  love and compassion toward those less fortunate through their Girl Scout Silver Award projects.  Belle raised money to purchase fabric for seventeen colorful, warm, hand-crafted blankets that will be distributed to those who have no home of their own.   What a useful donation that will certainly be appreciated!  Chiara cleverly designed nine different greeting card samples and then raised money for card stock, envelopes, and printer cartridges to produce 150 various greeting cards.  By this, our resident clients will have free greeting cards to send to their loves ones as a way of saying, "You are special to me!"  How thoughtful!  Both girls were strongly influenced by their experience in serving at a rescue mission kitchen where they saw young children--not just adult men as they had supposed--going through the line to receive their meals.  And both girls said that using their talents in helping others has given their own lives more meaning!  We salute Belle and Chiara, two compassionate and talented Girl Scouts, whose Silver Award service projects prove they have hearts of 24 karat gold!