Harini began her Girl Scout career the same way many girls
do: she joined her local (Wisconsin) troop in elementary school with a bunch of
friends. During this time (2001 – 2004), she remembers many things that she had
a lot of fun doing.
One of those things was the local Fall Festival. She and her
troop decorated pumpkins. After that, as fall passed into winter, she sang at the
senior center and skated around the ice rink.
Harini left her Girl Scout troop in 2004 to move to
California, and for the next few years she was involved in choir and school
centered activities. In 2011, she found out she could rejoin Girl Scouts.
In her new troop (during High school at the age of an Ambassador), she has done many things including gaining a
passion for the Women's Rights Movement. One of the things that really affected
Harini was when she learned about the "horrors and the terrible things that
happen to women of all ages, all colors, all religions and all sizes around the
world." She was really affected by the book and movie Half the Sky. She knows for a fact that she wants to volunteer
and get involved more with promoting women’s rights through Girl Scouts and on her own.
She says Girl Scouts taught her how to be a good citizen,
student, friend, daughter and person. Girl Scouts has taught her to be
confident and proud of goodness in opposition to the current belief that one
shouldn’t be too much of a "goody two-shoes." It encouraged her to pursue what she loves. It has taught her the valuable lesson that kindness
is a strong asset.
In her words, Girl Scouts “makes you feel like you are important
even though you might think that you are just one person amongst millions of
people in this world. It reminds you that each person makes up the world and if
everyone can just think positive thoughts and believe in their worth, then we
can actually really effect the world that we live in a good way.”
She plans to become a troop leader, and help mentor and give
feedback back to middle school and high school girls.
