COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (CNN) --An Iowa Girl Scout troop has shattered its cookie sales goal for 2021, selling an impressive five thousand boxes.
The girls are even more amazing themselves because they had to overcome a major obstacle, they are homeless.
All of the girls in Troop 64224 in Council Bluffs live in Micah house, an emergency homeless shelter.
Despite COVID-19 and the inability of going door to door this year because of the pandemic, the girls put on their sashes and went to work.
Their original goal was one thousand boxes of cookies and to sell a box in all fifty states.
Members of the community also pitched in to help, ordering cookies online and even picking them up or having them delivered.
Through social media, the girl scouts were able to sell cookies and even have them shipped to all fifty states, as they had hoped.
The Child Program Specialist of the house Kayla Terrillion said "All of our girls are brand new to the troop because of COVID-19. So, it's brand new eyes, brand new ideas, brand new needs and wants that they want to accomplish from Girl Scouts."
The money raised from cookie sales will help pay for the Girl's Scouts' field trips later this year.
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