Quantcast

The DNAinfo archives brought to you by WNYC.
Read the press release here.

Chicago Girl Scouts Mark Global Tradition on North Side

By Yvonne Hortillo | February 28, 2015 5:56pm | Updated on March 2, 2015 8:43am
 Girl Scouts on the North Side marked World Thinking Day
World Thinking Day for North Side Girl Scouts
View Full Caption

ALBANY PARK — There might not be a lot a 6-year-old girl can do for world peace at first glance.

But Service Unit 290 of the Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana are doing just that for this year's World Thinking Day, a scouting tradition celebrated every February worldwide by the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts.

Four troops — from John C. Coonley Elementary School, Irving Park Lutheran Church, Our Lady of Victory School and Edison Regional Gifted Center — gathered Saturday at Edison's school building on 4929 N. Sawyer Ave. in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood to learn about traditional Girl Scout values and how they apply to the rest of the world.

"One of our beloved traditions as Girl Scouts is to be a light to the world," Kirstin Corbett, a unit coordinator and Edison schoolteacher, told 90 students from kindergarten through eighth grade gathered in Edison's cafeteria.

This year's Thinking Day theme is based on the United Nations' Millennium Development Goal #8: Global partnership for development. Lofty goals include identifying the trade and finance needs of developing nations and learning how developed nations can assist, providing access to affordable and effective medicine and communication technology, and monitoring aid delivery.

Scheduled scout activities pay tribute to cottage industries created in developing nations, such as making friendship bracelets of yarn or embroidery floss, key chains of plastic beads, cardboard peace symbol puzzles, and games.

Scouts completing activities for Thinking Day are awarded a World Thinking Day badge which they can affix to the front of their sashes or vests.

For more neighborhood news, listen to DNAinfo Radio here: