April Showers
Thank you for supporting our Girl Scouts as they work together to help those in need by collecting personal care items through April Showers.
New, unused items needed include:
✔ Adult Incontinence
✔ Feminine Hygiene Products
✔ First Aid Supplies
✔ Mouthwash
✔ Shampoo
✔ Soap
✔ Toilet Paper
✔ Toothbrushes
✔ Toothpaste
Support April Showers
This year, you can choose how to support our Girl Scouts through April Showers!
Option 1: Girl Scouts will be distributing sticky notes throughout the community April 17-19. If you receive a sticky note on your door, Girl Scouts will be back through your area on April 25 to collect donations. Place donations in a bag/box outside your front door before 9am on April 25 with the sticky note attached or clearly marked for Girl Scouts.
Option 2: You may see our girls or other April Showers volunteers at local stores promoting April Showers during our Showering the Community event on April 18. If you are shopping at one of these stores, you can purchase items to donate and leave them with the girls.
Option 3: From April 17-26, you donate directly through one of our online registries. All donations are shipped to Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri and then distributed out to hundreds of agencies throughout St. Louis City and the 28 surrounding counties. Registry links will be visible starting April 17.
Option 4: Additional drop off points are located at your nearest Schnucks and Dierbergs Markets as well as the Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri Service Center.
- Schnucks
- Look for the bins marked for April Showers in your local Schnucks from April 17-26.
- Dierbergs
- Look for the shopping carts marked for April Showers in your local Dierbergs Market from April 17-26.
- Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri
- Blue barrels will be located in the back of our building Monday through Friday from 9am-5pm the week of April 20.
April Showers History
April Showers, Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri’s largest community service program, is important to the Girl Scout program and the community at large. Girl Scouts, their troop leaders, families and friends help people in need by collecting personal care items. This extraordinary program, launched in 1998, has since met a need unknown to many community leaders and citizens.
Since 1998, our Eastern Missouri Girl Scouts have collected more than 29 million personal care items. Did you know that families and individuals in need cannot purchase personal care items with the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)? More than 900,000 people a year in Missouri live below the federal poverty line. The items collected through April Showers are distributed to hundreds of agencies throughout eastern Missouri to support those in need in our communities.
April Showers Support
- If you need assistance in figuring out who your April Showers Coordinator is, contact the Answer Center at answercenter@girlscoutsem.org or 314.400.4600.
- If you have any questions about the April Showers program, please send them to aprilshowers@girlscoutsem.org.
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