(CNN) When one troop of Girl Scouts in Iowa was given the goal of selling more than 1,000 boxes of cookies, the girls put on their signature sashes and got to work, flexing their entrepreneurial skills. As of Feb. 26, the girls in Troop 64224 of Council Bluffs, Iowa , have sold over 5,000 boxes of cookies, shattering its sales goal for the 2021 cookie selling season. The girls in the troop live in an emergency homeless shelter known as Micah House. The Girl Scouts of Troop 64224 passing out boxes of cookies to a customer. They also met another goal of selling to customers in all 50 states, and Washington, DC, Kayla Terrillion, a child program specialist at Micah House, told CNN.

Source: CNN February 27, 2021 15:56 UTC