Living the Girl Scout Promise and Helping Others

Girl Scouts Host Toys for Tots Drive

Nearly 200 Girl Scouts who reside on the Peninsula in Hampton Roads participated in the seasons’ Toys for Tots drive. They collected 672 toys to donate to the Marine Corps program. To help promote the drive and get more girls involved, the Peninsula service units held a friendly competition with the prize being bragging rights. On Saturday, December 15, Corporal Emily Hutchins, the Newport News Marine Corps event coordinator for Toys for Tots, was on site at the GSCCC Peninsula Service Center to accept the donations for distribution. She left with a van filled, from stuffed animals and baby dolls to toy cars and trucks.


“We have over 2,000 families that we are helping this year, each one with two to five children," she said. "We try to make sure that each child gets a couple of toys and that each family gets a board game or two. Collection drives like these have a great turnout. The Girl Scouts did a super job."

Some Girl Scouts troops budgeted money from their fall product sale proceeds to go shopping for the Toys for Tots drives. Other girls got their families involved and came to drop off toys with their parents and siblings.

This is just one of the many community service project efforts area Girl Scouts have been involved with over the past few months. From making hundreds of toiletry kits for children and donating them to the Hurricane Sandy victims to helping the Salvation Army with their gift program, Girl Scouts were eager to help others.