SCA, a leading global hygiene and forest products company with 160 employees at its Bowling Green facility, awarded a $4,435 Environmental Education Grant to Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana on Saturday at the Girl Scouts Houchens Program Center in Bowling Green.

The grant will fund a Girl Scouts project to build a butterfly garden in a field adjacent to their camp. Working with faculty from Western Kentucky University, the girls will learn to create a habitat for bees, butterflies, birds and other pollinators. Once completed, the self-sustaining garden will also be a milkweed source for Monarch butterflies.

“This grant will allow us to establish a butterfly/pollinator habitat at our camp,” Ginny Pfohl of the Girl Scouts said in a news release. “The Girl Scouts will learn about and plant flowers and plants to help preserve and sustain these insects and birds, which are vital to a healthy environment. The habitat will be a long-term project and provide opportunities for environmental education and fulfilling badge requirements, such as the Bugs and Animal Habitats badges.”

SCA manufactures TENA incontinence care protection for both the retail and health care markets at its Bowling Green facility. SCA offers grants to communities where the company has operations.

Nationwide, SCA is funding 16 projects totaling $45,000 with local schools to help foster environmental learning among students of all ages. In total, SCA has donated more than $300,000 to schools and organizations throughout the country since the environmental grants program was launched in 2008.