Brownie Troop 784 meets in a brightly lit room near Division andLarrabee, a Chicago neighborhood that's often tough on little kidsbut is offering these girls new hope.
The girls who bound into the room, in the East Chicago Districtpolice station, are part of a newly formed Brownie troop that hasembraced the organization's long-held mission of instilling self-confidence, responsibility and accomplishment.
On a recent day, they are rehearsing for their official pinningceremony. It has been a long road to get to this point, to the daythe girls receive their first patches and vests, from last April.
"If you had asked me [how it was going] in June, when we broke …
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