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Troops Girl Scout cookie sales support homeless girls

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The Girl Scouts in Troop 6000 are all homeless or living in shelters. The troop’s annual cookie sales proceeds help women and girls in more than 20 shelters in the New York metro area. The troop has sold more than $1.6 million worth of cookies going back to 2017.

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