What We Do
We Are Building Future Leaders
As an organization, we are building future leaders. We build strong girls who turn into powerful women. Through Rainbow, girls are taught that they can achieve anything if they have the right determination and support. The International Order of the Rainbow for Girls is an organization for and run by the girls. Biweekly meetings are planned and run by the girls with adult aid and supervision. In addition to our State and Assembly Service Projects, the girls choose what projects they want to work on, what charities they want to fundraise for, and how they want to spend their time and money.
Girls learn how to conduct a regular business meeting and poise themselves appropriately for different situations. We teach girls that by living a life of Service, they can become better women and leaders in the world. When they know how to help others, they can do anything they set their minds to. Rainbow truly does get girls ready for life.
Florida State Service Project
With an emphasis on Service, Florida Rainbow’s State Service Project is Camp Boggy Creek in Eustis, Florida. Camp Boggy Creek is a camp designed specifically for children with serious medical issues and their families. It is a state-of-the-art facility that enables campers of all abilities to participate in the usual summer camp activities. Camp Boggy employs a full-time medical staff and offers camps catered to specific illnesses, which allows people all over the United States to mingle with others experiencing their same illness. For some campers it is their only sense of “normalcy” the whole year.
Hope #82 Service Project
The girls of Hope #82 have “adopted” the Masonic Home in St. Petersburg as their on-going service project. The Masonic Home offers assisted living and skilled nursing care to seniors. While the Masonic Home is open to everyone through private pay, it offers lifelong fraternal care to qualified Master Masons and their wives regardless of their ability to pay. Our girls are very good about sending birthday and Christmas cards to the residents and we try to get to the home to visit with the residents whenever we can.
