Asking is just the beginning....
Asking...Is just the beginning. Chapter 1..
This conversation with my 10 year old Daughter is what opened the door to creating Girls Giving Back. It was a winter day in 2009 and I was just curious if she would want to do some volunteer work in the community and what would that look like to her. Taylor said it would have to be with animals and she was so excited to research, we found that there were puppy mills that had been raided by animal patrol and there were many dogs that had been rescued, from this she lit up and wanted to help. We called around and finally found a shelter willing to let youth volunteer, so I decided to take her to the animal shelter to learn how to help the dogs recover, it was such a great experience and through that GGB had their first fundraiser to help support the shelter with vet bills to help the sick dogs they rescued.
The impact was big and many people wanted to get involved and Girls Giving Back started to gain wings. Asking what else we could do in the community, and the community responded. This all came about from asking my daughter Taylor how she would like to be involved in changing this world of ours.
More to the GGB story coming soon…
With gratitude,
Teresa Valley
Founder of Girls Giving Back