COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (CNN) – An Iowa Girl Scout troop broke its cookie sales target for 2021 by selling an impressive 5,000 boxes.
The girls are even more incredible because they had to overcome a big obstacle, they are homeless.
All the girls at Troop 64224 in Council Bluffs live in Micah’s home, an emergency shelter for the homeless.
Despite COVID-19 and the impossibility of going door to door this year because of the pandemic, the girls put on their banners and went to work.
The original goal was a thousand boxes of cookies and to sell a box in all fifty states.
Community members also contributed to help by ordering cookies online and even collecting them or requesting that they be delivered.
Through social networks, Girl Scouts were able to sell cookies and even send them to all fifty states, as they expected.
Children’s program specialist Kayla Terrillion said: “All of our girls are new to the pack because of COVID-19. So it is new eyes, new ideas, totally new needs and desires that they want to fulfill with Scout girls. ”
The money raised from the sale of cookies will help pay for Girl Scouts field trips later this year.