My sister-in-law sent this to me yesterday. Her family, which includes my brother and their three daughters, has recently been stationed with the United States Marines Corps in Okinawa, Japan. It has been an exciting experience for the family, in-general. My sister-in-law has been very influential on the lives of many little girls, with her various troops in girl scouts. I was excited to hear that they would be able to continue Girl Scouts while they were in Okinawa. It has been proven that children who are a part of Girl Scouts or Boy Scouts become more successful in life. And, I can tell ya from first-hand experience that their cookies are incredible! Please read on, and maybe you can lend a helping hand. The Manly Housewife will be sending over a donation to help with this project, and I hope you can see it in your heart to help, too. Watch this video: Japan Earthquake Tsunami 2011 Tribute, “Still Waters,” by End of Ever.

As our hearts and prayers go over to Japan, we were discussing with the girls and parents about what we could do to help.  As a whole committee, Kinser Girl Scouts along with most the other committees on the island have decided to get hygiene kits together to send over to Japan. One of our Sister Troop leader’s, Chizuko’s, family was greatly impacted by this earthquake, and her family (who are all fine physically) have lost everything. Our troop 442 wants to do everything possible to help our GS sisters in need, as well as anyone else we can.

We have decided to make hand towels into holders tied with a shoestring, and we are going to fill these towels with travel-size hygiene items. The cost is going to be $10 each. So we are asking for monetary donations to help with the cost. We also thought that each girl scout can write (or draw) a personal message to put inside each kit. So I ask that you tell everyone you know about this, use Facebook or any other resource that you have at your disposal. If people need to use this as a tax write off, I am including our tax id # and the address where anyone can send the funds. Let’s raise some money and show these girls what it truly means to give back to our community!

If nothing else, let’s just make sure we are sending our prayers. Thank you for your help!

Tax ID # 13-1624016

Send funds to:

Please make checks to: USAGS Overseas-Courtney (they set up the checking acct for us all)

Lets see if we can send enough donation to make 10 bags. That’s only 10 people donating $10 each. That’s not much to ask for helping these people in a time of need.

10 1 from The Manly Housewife

9 8 Left to go

Please post a comment if you are willing to donate $10. If you can’t send $10 please post to help me let them know your praying for them.

Thank you for the help,

The Manly Housewife