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Girl Scouting reaching Hispanic communities across Colorado

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In the last couple of weeks, I hope you’ve had a chance to learn more about how the Colorado Hispanic community is participating in Girl Scouts. If you’ve missed our other blogs, read them here (Blog #1, Blog #2).

To end our Hispanic Heritage Month Blog series, I wanted to share more information on how Hispanic girls and adults, serving as volunteers, are increasingly participating in Girl Scouting around the state of Colorado:

  • This summer Girl Scouts of Colorado received a grant from the MetLife Foundation, which has helped us bring, through the help of volunteers, the Girl Scout Journey program to Hispanic middle school students around the state.
  • In the both Summit and Eagle counties we’ve recently started new bilingual Girl Scout troops led by local volunteers.
  • In Northern Colorado we’ve participated in Ciñco de Mayo celebrations in Greeley and Longmont and partnered with local schools, City of Greeley Recreation Department and organizations, like the Boys and Girls Club, to offer volunteer-led Girl Scout programming, including our Power Up bullying prevention program. We have served more than 310 new girls! We recently started a neighborhood pilot program in Weld County where we are teaching adults involved in Adults Learning English as Second Language (ESL) classes about Girl Scouting and giving them opportunities to practice their skills by teaching a short-term Girl Scout program. We’ve also partnered with local radio stations, such as “El Tigre” KGRE/KRKY & KRYE Radio, to help us spread the word.
  • In Pueblo we started a Hispanic troop that is part of the Grupo Folklorico Dancers. Pueblo area Hispanic leaders have also started a Girl Scout Advisory Committee.

I also wanted to share with you a video we recently produced for the Hispanic community to invite them to be members or volunteers of Girl Scouts. The video is in Spanish, and I encourage you to share it if you have connections to Spanish-speaking communities.

¿Por qué Unirse a Girl Scouts? (Why join Girl Scouts?)

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta3qQKORvNU?rel=0]

I’ve enjoying blogging with you during Hispanic Heritage Month, and hope you will explore how you can support Hispanic/Latina Girl Scouts by contacting us at 303-607-4813 (1-855-726-4726 , ext. 4813) or preguntas@gscolorado.org.

For more info:

http://www.girlscoutsofcolorado.org/ or http://www.girlscoutsofcolorado.org/espanol

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Girl Scouts of Colorado recognizes Hispanic Heritage Month

Hi. My name is Marcela Gaete, and I am a Membership Manager with Girl Scouts of Colorado based in our Denver, Colo. office. I’ve worked for Girl Scouts of Colorado for six years. I was also a Girl Guide in Chile when I was growing up. Girl Guides made a difference in my life by:

  • How to have strength in difficult times, overcome any situation and never give up.
  • Discipline, respect (everyone deserves respect and to be heard), knowledge about how to survive on my own, knowledge of the world, and how positive thinking would help me overcome anything, even if it seems impossible.
  • How to be a team player, socialize and how to identify that every individual has something to bring to the world.
  • How to be authentic, real and proud of my heritage.
  • How to always keep learning from the people around me, but also from the world.
  • Lastly, friends that would last forever, no matter the distance or the path your life takes.

And as a Membership Manager with Girl Scouts of Colorado, I am excited to be passing what I’ve learned through Girl Guides/Scouts to our next generation of Hispanic women leaders.

From September 15th through October 15th, the United States celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month, which in part recognizes the positive contributions that the Hispanic population has made in this country.

Here at Girl Scouts of Colorado, I am planning to blog three times over the next two weeks showcasing how Colorado Hispanics are participating in Girl Scouting.

To start, I want to share this video we recently put together in partnership with Entravision, and assistance from the Beeler Community Garden. I think this video showcases very nicely how the Colorado Hispanic community is participating in Girl Scouting.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDFWj7CjB7A?rel=0]

Check back later on this week for more information on a Day of the Dead event, which is an important Mexican holiday, Girl Scouts of Colorado is planning in Denver on Nov. 1.

For more info:

http://www.girlscoutsofcolorado.org/ or http://www.girlscoutsofcolorado.org/espanol

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Reflecting on my 50 years as a Girl Scout

From Girl Scout Colorado Alumna and Volunteer, Linda Fuller, a 50-year Girl Scout member and co-chair of Colorado’s 100th anniversary committee

Sometimes it seems I have always ‘bled green’. I’m sure working as a professional Girl Scout on staff for 18 years with the then legacy council, Mile Hi, reinforced those feelings. Girl Scouting was a constant in my life beginning in the second grade, which was the earliest one could become a Girl Scout at the time. Whenever I moved, I signed on with the Girl Scouts, because no matter where I went, as a girl or an adult – Maryland or Massachusetts or New Hampshire or Colorado – I could be assured of new friends and familiar activities. Girl Scouting was a place where I could learn and feel successful at what I did despite a difficult home life. We went camping, dug deep holes in the woods for latrines, lashed together chairs and tables, cooked over wood fires, and traveled on special field trips to New York and other places. As a Girl Scout Senior I went on two Wider Ops (or destinations as they are now known), a special career exploration event in New Jersey and a marine biology project at the University of Virginia. Encampments, long bike trips around Cape Cod, late nights giggling in a tent, canoe trips, serving as a Counselor-in-Training (CIT), sailing and international travel, all these adventures under the auspices of Girl Scouts have enriched my life and given it purpose and joy. I never had daughters, just two sons who I roped into volunteering to help me with Girl Scout activities from time to time. I do have a wee granddaughter, Bella, in my life now, and her mom is already prepared to start a Girl Scout troop when she’s old enough. (With my help of course. :)) And when I start Bella’s Girl Scout Daisy troop, it will be in addition to the girls I currently lead in my Girl Scout Junior troop. Once you are a Girl Scout, you are always a Girl Scout, and I wouldn’t have it any other way!

As Girl Scouts celebrates our 100th anniversary “Year of the Girl,” we invite you to share your Girl Scout memories with us. Visit our website and share your Girl Scout stories today!