Jayden Bunch named as a 2024 Gold Award Girl Scout

Jayden explained, “My project was conducted in collaboration with Redeeming Love, an outreach that serves women who are hurting, addicted and/or trafficked on the streets of Rochester, New York. I contacted individual and business donors to collect nearly $2,000 worth of hygiene products, personal care items, and clothing. I worked with volunteers to assemble these items into care packages. My Redeeming Love team and I ventured out in the outreach’s van to seek out these women and offer them a care package as a way to initiate a first connection with them. Through weekly mobile outreach, we nurture an ongoing relationship with the women and help connect them with community resources providing support with issues such as homelessness, addiction, domestic violence, and sexual exploitation. Tackling this issue is important to me because it offers marginalized women assistance in reaching their full potential to live a safe, healthy, and productive life. Through the Redeeming Love outreach, our local community increases awareness of and empathy towards these vulnerable women and reminds us that our smallest actions can lead to a lifelong impact on those in need.”

Jayden added, “Being in Girl Scouts has exposed me to a wide range of people and experiences that I might not have otherwise encountered. The skills I developed in Girl Scouts have prepared me for roles of leadership in my volunteer work, my church and school communities, and my future as an Occupational Therapist.”

Jayden will receive her Gold Award at the Gold Award Ceremony on June 1, 2024. The Girl Scout Gold Award is the most prestigious award in the world for young women. Only 5.4% of eligible Girl Scouts earn the Gold Award.

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