The Girl Scouts of Southern Alabama will distribute their cookies Feb. 18 to the Kappa Delta sorority, according to Camden Owen, sophomore in nursing and vice president of community service.
Cheryl Miller, Girl Scout volunteer communications and training manager, said Kappa Delta at Auburn has been a great supporter of the Girl Scouts locally and their entire council.
"We are really excited that each year they like to purchase cookies, you know, to support the cookie program," Miller said.
The girls are excited about selling to a group that loves and supports them each year, according to Miller.
Miller said Kappa Delta members have been talking about growing the project and supporting the camp program.
"The cookies they've purchased have always gone towards a particular troop," Miller said.
Kappa Delta wants to expand the project by helping the Girl Scouts to go to camp, according to Miller.
With the purchase of 50 cases of cookies, with 12 boxes of cookies each, enough money is generated to support the Girl Scouts, according to Miller.
"There is enough money generated to send two girls to camp," Miller said. "This enables girls who are not otherwise able to go to camp to go."
Owen said Kappa Delta has been working with the Girl Scouts since 1998 and it became their national philanthropy.
Owen said they buy cookies from local troops in Auburn and surrounding areas.
Kappa Delta buys three boxes per member for more than 240 members, and out of those boxes, each will donate one box to troops overseas.
"A big KD thing is promoting confidence and a way we do that, we thought, was incorporating the Girl Scouts and promoting confidence through them because they are young girls and we want them to grow up and have confidence," Owen said.
Owen said they also have other events with the Girl Scouts such as giving them tours of Auburn's campus, giving them a survival kit for college and two other educational events.
Logan Jones, freshman in undeclared science and math and Girl Scout assistant, said Kappa Delta helps teach confidence to the Girl Scouts.
"We work to promote confidence and it's great to see that we can do with the Girl Scouts through working with them," Jones said.
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