NEW YORK CITY — The Girl Scouts of Troop 6000, the first homeless shelter-based troop in New York City, have quite a sizable goal for their first-ever cookie sale.
The roughly two dozen girls, who all live in homeless shelters, have set a lofty target of 6,000 boxes.
For starters, they have set up a cookie stand at Kellogg's NYC, a cereal cafe located in Manhattan’s Union Square.
"The biggest impact that we see, and when you talk to the girls you'll hear them say, is that they belong to something. They have a sisterhood within the other Girl Scouts," Girl Scouts of Greater New York CEO Meredith Maskara told ABC News. "They talk to other girls who may be in their same situation who feel alone, and they feel like they have a stronger sense of community and belonging overall."
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