Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Girl Guides of Canada are moving their annual cookie campaign fundraiser online.

It means cookie monsters nation-wide can now order their favourite cookies direct to their doorstep as the organization adjusts their marquee fundraising event to the realities of the coronavirus.

“We’re selling cookies online on a special website ‘cookies.girlguides.ca‘ which is where you can buy cookies either from a group if you know a Girl Guide in your life or from Girl Guides as an organization,” said Diamond Isinger, the BC Commissioner for the Girl Guides. “When people ask a Girl Guide that they know – perhaps a friend, a family member, or a neighbour – they have a custom link that they can provide.”

“So for example, if you are the Kamloops Girl Guides you’ll have a special Kamloops Girl Guides link that you can provide to anyone that wants to support you and that way all proceeds from those sales go directly to the group that sold them to you.”

Cookie sales have been the mainstay way the Girl Guides raise funds since 1927 – with an estimated 6-million boxes sold nationwide every year.

Boxes of the classic vanilla and chocolate cookies as well as the chocolatey mint cookies are available for $5 each. Isinger says money raised from the sale of cookies goes directly to program development and activities.

“We will have some select retail opportunities later this fall with some stores under the Sobey’s and Loblaw’s brand names in British Columbia – so we will be making more information about that available through our website and through the retailers as well,” she added.

“But to start with right now as of this week we have cookies available online – direct from girls, and we look forward to selling lots in that way.”

Hey 🍪 fans & girl empowerment champions: For the 1st time ever, you can buy @girlguidesofcan cookies online & have them shipped to you. Ask a Girl Guide you know for her group link! If you don’t know a GG, I invite you to support my own #EastVan group: https://t.co/AIuqTk7gbk pic.twitter.com/gKoAkwD8jr

— Diamond Isinger (@diamondisinger) October 13, 2020