Give Kids the World Village benefits from Girl Scout

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Give Kids the World Village benefits from Girl Scout

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Wednesday, 08 September 2010 00:00

Loreanna Phelps, a Juliette and an Ambassador Girl Scout, recently earned her Gold Award for a project at Give Kids the World Village in Kissimmee.
Phelps, a member of the Green Oaks Service Unit in the Girl Scouts Citrus Council of Central Florida, has been with the Girl Scout organization for 11 years. She is a junior at Freedom High School
“When it came time for me to determine my Gold project, I was really excited and was looking forward to the work and challenges. I chose Give Kids the World Village as my special charity,” said Phelps, of Hunter’s Creek, and the 15-year-old daughter of Steve and Eunice Phelps. “Children have always been one of my cherished loves in life. For they always know how to put a smile on my face no matter what they do. Their smiles make me smile. I directed my Gold Project to very special children.”
Phelps said she chose to focus on children that were in life-challenging situations with their health, some of whom were terminally ill.
“When a person is sick, it is very hard to smile. But as a Girl Scout, I know ‘kindness’ always makes a difference to others in how they feel.” Phelps said. “My project reached out to these special children and their parents.”
Phelps added that the project involved putting something she personally designed in the hands of these children and their parents. That something was 250 special artistic designed plaques that showed that a Girl Scout really cared.
“Each of the wooden plaques sent a message of hope and love by emphasizing: Become, Believe, Belong, and Build – the four Bs of Girl Scouts,” Phelps said.
The four Bs stand for: Become all you can be; Believe you can do anything; Belong to family, community, the world; and Build on your dreams.
Phelps said the overall total Gold Project time spent on the project was 166 hours and 20 minutes. She added that the plaques are intended to be placed in the children’s bedrooms at home, on their wheelchairs or on their walkers.
The Girl Scout four B words on each plaque were meant to inspire the children as well as their parents to remember the love and friendship that they experienced while one of their dreams came true at Give Kids the World Village, Phelps said.
Each of the 250 plaques was presented to the children along with a page of history about Juliette Low and Girl Scouts.
Phelps also hosted two meet-and-greet presentations at the Give Kids the World Village dinners, giving her a chance to meet the children and their families and to serve them.
“My outreach demonstrated love and compassion to the sick children and to their parents,” Phelps said. “My Gold Project served as a tool to tell others especially the children that the four-Bs message of Girl Scouts is something we all should live by every day.”
The Gold Award is the highest award a Girl Scout can earn.
“It has been a wonderful journey of learning so much about the importance of good character, leadership and life skills. My parents have been very supportive of my involvement with Girl Scouts as well as my brother Joshua, who is an Eagle Scout in Troop 826 in Kissimmee.”