Service
A Cornerstone of Girl Scouting
GSSJC service project idea column
by Victoria Soto, Council Service Project Coordinator
Each month, this column will inform Juliettes, troops, groups,
service units or any variety of Girl Scout Families of potential
service projects.
If you have a great service project, please send in all
the details to Melinda Gaskill at mgaskill@sjgs.org.
Your project may be featured in a later issue. |
Medical Bridges
Medical Bridges is proud to be in partnership with HoustonPBS,
the GSSJC and Rotaracts during The Rx for Survival: A Global
Health Challenge. Beginning in September, the Girl Scouts
and other service organizations are invited to collect materials
to create hygiene kits to be distributed to healthcare institutions
treating under-served people all over the globe. Please see
www.medicalbridges.org
for more information.
“Medical Bridges, Inc. (“MBI”) is a Houston,
Texas based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization incorporated
in 1997.  The
mission of MBI is to procure donated medical materials and
equipment for distribution to developing and poverty-stricken
countries. MBI primarily functions as a clearinghouse, whereby
unused and overstocked medical supplies are collected from
medical institutions (hospitals, clinics, physician’s
offices and other facilities) then repackaged and distributed
to qualified providers of charitable medical care in impoverished
hospitals and clinics worldwide.
Since Houston is home to the world’s largest medical
center with more than 100 hospitals in the Greater Houston
area, their goal is to steadily increase their procurement
of usable medical and surgical goods, equipment and supplies,
and to increase their distribution to impoverished countries
world-wide.
To accomplish this goal, MBI relies on the generosity of
area individuals, churches, and foundations to raise their
required operating expenses to ensure that all of their supplies
are given free of charge. Additionally, MBI is dependant on
volunteers to prepare all of their donations for distribution.
MBI welcomes volunteers of all ages and welcome children
under 10 with adult supervision. Call today to schedule your
group!
Please see page 47 in the program section of this issue
of The Golden Link for information about what to
put in the hygiene kits and where to deliver them once assembled.
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Gifts with Heart
Thank you Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council!
Over 2,000 girls and family members have or will be participating
in the Lowe’s workshops for the Gifts with Heart service
project.
All workshops, including those listed in the September issue
of The Golden Link, are full!
Additional opportunities for girls to participate will be
posted on the Gifts with Heart Web site, www.giftswithheart.org.
Just click on the Special Events button, listed midway on
the left hand column. Thank you for your interest in this
exciting project serving children.
Gifts with Heart Staff
Susan Mullins, President & Rosalind Rolls, Program Coordinator
Helping the survivors of Hurricane Katrina
Girl Scouts are coming to the aid of those affected by the
hurricane with compassion and an outpouring of support and
assistance. The GSSJC
Web site is peridically updated with new information about
what you can do to help.
 If
you have had contact with evacuees through your church, school
or other organization who want to participate in Girl Scouts,
we encourage you to invite them to join your troop. Your service
unit registrar was sent information about how to register
girls from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
There will be a continuing need to support the relief efforts
in our area and many more opportunitues to help in the weeks
and months ahead. Please continue to check the Web site and
send us your stories at hurricaneaid@sjgs.org.
Stories we have received are posted at www.gssjc.org. |