Girl Scouts to Help With Clothing Drive
San Fernando Valley Girl Scouts will canvass their neighborhoods Saturday, going door to door, but not selling those famous cookies.
More than 2,000 Scouts from troops in the San Fernando Valley Girl Scout Council will drop off about 30,000 bags to collect items for the second annual Be Your Best/Good Turn Day Clothing Drive.
The girls will ask people to fill the bags with new or used clothing and then, on April 18, the Scouts will pick them up and deliver them to the Salvation Army’s Canoga Park Adult Rehabilitation Center.
After they distribute the bags, the girls will have the opportunity to tour the facility Saturday and to meet some of the people who are going through drug and alcohol rehabilitation there.
“This shows them that there are people out there that are less fortunate than they are,” said Jason Katz, communications director for the Valley council. “They find out that they have the power within themselves to help them with their plight.”
The center houses about 52 men at a time, providing six months of free room and board, substance-abuse treatment, counseling and therapy.
In return, the men work with the donations to ready them for the organization’s thrift store, which is the primary source of funding for the facility.
The Salvation Army’s Good Turn Day drive is one of the organization’s largest donation campaigns, with several public and private companies and groups collecting merchandise and donating money for the rehabilitation center.
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