Leila Bagbey, Madison Davis, Kortnie Downie and Ariel Salerno, Girl Scouts from Troop 946 in Suffolk, recently earned the Girl Scout Silver Award, the second-highest achievement in Girl Scouting.

For their project, the girls planned, budgeted and shopped to cook and deliver meals for personnel at Station 4 of the Suffolk Department of Fire and Rescue. Each girl took turns gathering recipes, shopping and cooking, and they worked together to deliver the food to the fire station.

To cover the cost of the meals, the girls made bracelets out of bottle tabs and then sold them. Through this effort, they raised $250 for food and supplies.

“We wanted to do something for the men and women who fight the dangerous fires that happen around Suffolk,” Downie said. “They work so hard to keep us safe that we thought it would be nice to do something for them so that they have one less thing to worry about.”

The girls also created a cookbook that contained all of the recipes they prepared and then presented the book to the fire department employees for their use in the future.

Girl Scouts of the Colonial Coast serves 16,000 girls in grades K through 12 and more than 6,000 adult volunteers in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina.

For more information about Girl Scouts, visit gsccc.org or call 1-800-77SCOUT.