Sacramento – For the fourth year in a row, the Sacramento regional Girl Scouts is operating a program whereby donations can send their Girl Scout cookies, and a little bit of home, to the troops overseas.

Jennifer Lemos of Girl Scouts Heart of Central California based in Sacramento said the public can “help local Girl Scouts send a piece of home to military troops by purchasing a box of Girl Scout Cookies for the soldiers.”

Lemos said “Troop to Troop” is a Girl Scout program that “allows the public to buy Girl Scout Cookies as a donation for military troops.” She said: “This year, 30,000 boxes of cookies have been donated so far, and thousands more are expected.”

Girl Scouts Heart of Central California is working with the California National Guard for the fourth year in a row to make sure the donated cookies make it to the military troops overseas. Last year, Girl Scouts assisted the guardsmen in loading the last pallet of donated Girl Scout Cookies into a CH-47 Chinook helicopter and watched the helicopter take off on the first leg of its trip to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Girls will be selling Girl Scout Cookies through March 20. To find cookies near you, the Girl Scout website “cookie locator” can be searched by zip code.

Lemos said the Girl Scouts, founded in 1912, Girl Scouts “is still the leading authority on girls’ healthy development, and builds girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place.” The local council, Girl Scouts Heart of Central California is headquartered in Sacramento and serves nearly 29,000 girls in 18 counties in Central California.

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