Message from Our Executive Director
Happy New Year to our friends and family! We are excited to launch into 2012 after a very successful 2011. Our program staff is busy getting ready to welcome the girls back to the Club and our board and staff are ready to for a host of events, activities, and thought provoking opportunities to usher in 2012 as Year of the Girl.
Why girls? Why now, you may ask. You may have noticed recently that numerous groups, national and international, are drawing attention to something we have acknowledged for nearly two decades: girls hold a special place in our communities, our society, and our world. They hold the power to bring about the critical changes desperately needed in our world today. As the African proverb goes, “If you educate a boy, you educate an individual, if you educate a girl, you educate a community.”
“Your support especially over the last year has proven that you believe in investing in girls and that – recession or not – support for girls is a critical need and a powerfully effective investment in our community.”
(Girl Scouts 2011)
This year we look forward to continuing to work with our girls to develop their basic skills, leadership abilities, and help them achieve their personal best. Then they are prepared to enter the world with the confidence, belief in self, and feeling of possibility that will be required of them to make their world a better place.
Thank you for you support, and please look out for more from us about how you can be involved in making global change, one life at a time, in your own backyard.
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