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Girl Scout Troop 183 Service Projects

Girl Scout Troop 183 participates in a variety of Service Projects throughout the year to help others and meet the Program Standards and Goals of GSUSA.

Kids Vote Virginia
Relay for Life
Adopt - A - Spot
Civil War Soldier Gravesite Clean-Up

Girl Scout Program Standard #1
Program experiences and activities meet the needs and interests of girls, are based on the Girl Scout Promise and Law, and enable the girls to grow and develop, as described in the four Girl Scout Program Goals.

 Girl Scout Fundamental Goals 1-4
1.  Develop to her full individual potential
2.  To relate to others with increasing understanding, skill, and respect.
3.  Develop values to guide her actions and to provide the foundation for sound decision-making.
4.  To contribute to the improvement of society through the use of her abilities and leadership skills, working in cooperation with others.

Girl Scout Program Standard #5
Service is inherent in the Girl Scout Promise and Law and is given without expectation of payment or reward.  All girls should take part in service activities or projects.

  • Kids Vote Virginia This was an annual project from 1999 - 2004.  We set up and maintained a polling place for children at a neighborhood precinct. The girls set up at 6:00am and worked in shifts throughout the day until polls close at 7:00pm.  Children came with their parents and voted for elected officials or on local referendums. Ballots were collected and driven to Norfolk for counting and results are published in the Virginian Pilot Newspaper. All materials are provided by Kids Vote Virginia.  The troop served more than 300+ children in November 2000. For more information on Kids Voting USA check out the web links under Favorite Websites.

  • Election 2000 took place November 7, 2000.  This was a memorable Presidential Election that the troop will not soon forget!


Jessica and Emily C at our Kids Vote Precinct

  • Relay for Life Survivor Celebration is held each year to honor the Survivors of Cancer.  The event is held prior to the Relay for Life Fundraiser.  As many as 1200-2000 survivors come together to celebrate.  Girl Scout Troop 183 has assisted with the registration, distribution of materials and signatures on the banner that is carried in the first lap of the Relay.  This is a special project that honors friends and family members who are fighting or lost their battle to cancer.  

  • We participate annually in memory of Troop Mom, Shelley C. Shelley who lost her battle to cancer in August 2002, just 3 weeks after our return from Paris.


  • Annie, Michele, Ben & Shelley C., Suzi, Jessica and Alana 
    at the Relay for Life Survivor Celebration 2001.

2004 Relay for Life
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Lena, Morgan and Mrs. Terri Current & Alumni Troop Members decorate a luminary for Mrs. Shelley. Alexis and Mrs. Jen

  • Adopt a Spot  From 1999-2001 Girl Scout Troop 183 "owned" 15 blocks of beachfront along the Atlantic Ocean in Virginia Beach, Virginia. We were responsible for clean-up of the beach. We collected as much as 18 large garbage bags on a summer morning.  


Adopt A Spot Beach Clean Up, Spring 1999

Civil War Soldier Gravesite Clean-Up Assisting our service unit, Troop 183 helps maintain the gravesite of two colored soldiers from the Civil War.  See more information about the project on our Service Unit Website. 
 
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