Girl Scout Gold Award!! :)

i wanted to talk a bit about my gold award project for girl scouts. first let me start by explaining what it is exactly. i have been in girl scouts since kindergarten. we focus on leadership, community service, and self-awareness. as a girl scout gets older and moves on to higher levels, she can earn badges and awards for completing certain projects. the gold award is the highest award a girl scout can achieve in the last year before college. this project requires both leadership and initiative.


for my project, i decided to re-create a library at an orphanage in india. before i could go directly into working on the library, i needed funds. i organized a garba fundraiser with the help of family and friends and was able to raise about $3000. it was quite a successful event. a lot of people also donated books!


once i got to india last summer, i started interacting with the kids and admins at the orphanage. i worked with a librarian at a local school to decide what books to buy. she took me to a book fair and we picked up some catalogs and went through them. then i went to a book publisher with my dad and bought additional books. once i bought all the books, we worked on the set-up and cataloging. before i knew it, the new library was up and running. it felt amazing to see the kids in there being interested in reading and learning. it was tough but definitely worth the time and effort.