Girl Scouts collect pajamas to send to Sunrin Orphanage

Photo By Sgt. Nicole Rogge | CAMP FOSTER, OKINAWA, Japan – Foster Girl Scouts pose for a photo Dec. 10 at the Community Center aboard Camp Foster, Okinawa, Japan. The Foster Girl Scout Juniors collected pajamas to send to Sunrin Orphanage near Pohang, Korea, as part of efforts to earn the Bronze Award, the highest award a Girl Scout Junior can earn. With help from other Girl Scout troops and the Marine Officer's Spouses Club Okinawa, the Juniors were able to collect 80 pajamas, one for each child at the orphanage. (U.S Marine photo by Pvt. Nicole Rogge)  

CAMP FOSTER, OKINAWA, JAPAN

12.10.2017

Story by Pvt. Nicole Rogge 

Marine Corps Installations Pacific

The Foster Girl Scouts gathered together to collect pajamas Dec. 10 at the Community Center aboard Camp Foster.

The meeting helped the Foster Girl Scout Juniors earn their Bronze Award by collecting donated pajamas for the Sunrin Orphanage near Pohang, Korea.

“The bronze award is the highest level of award a Girl Scout Junior can earn,” said Col. Maria McMillen, a volunteer with the Foster Girl Scouts and the assistant chief of staff for G-5, planning, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, III Marine Expeditionary Force. “What the girls do is look into the community and find a need, then they find a way they can help fill that need.”

With help from other Girl Scout troops and the Marine Officer's Spouses Club Okinawa, the Girl Scout Juniors were able to collect 80 pajamas, one for each child at the orphanage.

“It’s important for the girls to know that not everyone has the advantages that they do,” said Lance Cpl. Austyn Krecicki, a volunteer with the Foster Girl Scouts and a combat production specialist with Headquarters and Support Battalion, Marine Corps Installations Pacific-Marine Corps Base Camp Butler, Japan.

During the donation, leaders and parents explained to the girls why giving back to the community is so important and how they can make a lasting impression on someone else. The girls discussed reasons they were collecting the pajamas and what it meant to them to share with other children.

“The orphanage was started by III MEF Marines in 1952 towards the end of the Korean War,” said McMillen. “So this is an opportunity to give those children warm pajamas and something that tells them someone is thinking about them.”

• Date Taken: 12.10.2017
• Date Posted: 12.20.2017 00:30
• Story ID: 259383
• Location: CAMP FOSTER, OKINAWA, JP