Business ProfileforGirls Like Me

Girls Like Me and the owner ******************* claim to offer inclusive services to girls to build confidence. We signed up over the summer and after my daughter submitted a video, we received a letter indicating she qualified for a scholarship for a discount of $248 from the total price of $1738. Bi weekly sessions from 9/9/23-5/18/24. A month into the program, **** forced my 13 year old daughter to sell 2 boxes of chocolate for a "fundraiser". They never asked my permission to allow my daughter to solicit sales and I was never told that children would be forced to work in order to earn their already approved slot within the program. When I expressed my discomfort with forcing my minor child to work and sell items by soliciting sales, **** told me that my daughter can no longer attend the program and did not provide a refund. I also have not been pleased because they advertise that they provide catered meals. That is not true. Girls are left to make sandwiches themselves and DIY salads. My daughter did not consume the cold food they provided. Also for a company who claims their interest is in empowering girls, they quickly cut my daughter off just because she did not sell any of the chocolate. **** also tried to force me to give her the value of the chocolate and stated that if I did not want my daughter to sell anything to earn her organization more money to pay for food and transportation that I would need to pay an additional $120. I felt swindled because none of this was previously discussed and was a surprise to me until they kicked my daughter out of the program after receiving the final email from ****.