St. Louis mom says Girl Scouts warned her troop to stop selling bracelets as Palestinian fundraiser
A St. Louis, Missouri, mother said the Girl Scouts organization threatened her with legal action after her troop sold bracelets to help Palestinian children.
A St. Louis, Missouri, mother said the Girl Scouts organization threatened her with legal action after her troop sold bracelets to help Palestinian children.
Nawal Abuhamdeh said her daughter's troop decided to make bracelets and donate the money rather than participate in the annual cookie sale. Abuhamdeh, who is Palestinian, has led her troop's cookie fundraising event since 2019. But because of the Israel-Hamas war, she said the troop did not have the "energy to be able to sell cookies to a community, especially in a time of crisis."
"We were debating whether we had the energy to put into a cookie season as we were grieving," she said in a phone interview. "And not only that but also our community was grieving."
Nawal Abuhamdeh's daughter’s Girl Scout troop started to raise money for urgent humanitarian needs for children in Gaza through a bracelet-making fundraiser.Courtesy of Nawal AbuhamdehThe eight-member troop, which includes girls from Indian, Pakistani, Somalin, Palestinian, Syrian and Jordanian backgrounds, led the project, Abuhamdeh said. They held meetings about what material to use and where beads should be placed.
The girls decided to sell beaded bracelets for $5 and clay designs for $10 and donate the money to Palestine Children Relief Fund.
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