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May 05, 2023

The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS /wæɡz/) is a global association supporting the female-oriented and female-only Guiding and Scouting organizations in 152 countries. It was established in 1928 in Parád, Hungary, and has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom. It is the counterpart of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM). WAGGGS is organized into five regions and operates five international Guiding centers. It holds full member status in the European Youth Forum (YFJ), which operates within the Council of Europe and European Union areas and works closely with these bodies.

World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
HeadquartersWorld Bureau, Olave Centre, London
Country152 countries
Founded1928
FounderRobert Baden-Powell
Membership10 million
Chair World BoardHeidi Jokinen
CEOAnna Segall
Website
www.wagggs.org
 Scouting portal

Mission

The mission of the WAGGGS is to enable girls and young women to reach for their potential as responsible citizens of the world.

WAGGGS provides a non-formal educational program that provides training in life skills, leadership and decision making. It also offers projects and programs at an international level that enable Girl Guides and Girl Scouts to be responsible world citizens through action and activity in the community.

WAGGGS is run by women for girls and young women. Girl Guides and Girl Scouts are trained in leadership and decision-making, and are encouraged to participate in the governance and leadership of WAGGGS. Each individual unit is democratically run with Girl Guides and Girl Scouts actively involved in leadership and in decision making.

Girl Guiding/Girl Scouting is open to all girls and young women without distinction of creed, race, nationality, or any other circumstance. WAGGGS believes that the education of girls, and the education of boys, includes education for equal partnership. Young men and young women are taught to recognize their differences and their similarities, and to respect each other as individuals.

Girl Guiding/Girl Scouting is a voluntary organisation that relies on over 100,000 volunteers around the world to implement programs for Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, and to give girls and young women support and leadership. There are over 10 million Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 152 countries. Girl Guides and Girl Scouts from around the world can meet each other at international events at one of the five World Centers.

There are many opportunities to attend international events run by the United Nations or other non-governmental organizations on behalf of the Association. The WOSM is the non-governmental organization (NGO), that represents the Scouting movement at the United Nations.[1] The WOSM and WAGGGS both have General Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.[2]

Educational methods

Girl Guiding/Girl Scouting is based on a core set of values that are found in the Girl Guide/Girl Scout Promise and Law. Each Girl Guide and Girl Scout promises to do her best to her faith and to others, and in so doing she realizes her fullest potential as a responsible citizen.

Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting uses non-formal educational methods. Non-formal education is organized educational activity outside schools and colleges. The key components of non-formal education are that:

  • Young people can develop life skills and attitudes based on an integrated value system based on the Promise and Law.
  • Young people learn from their peer group.
  • Young people learn through activities and practical programs that are created by young people for young people
  • Young people volunteer to join non-formal education organizations that are led also by volunteers that ensure commitment and maximum learning.
  • Young people learn by progressive self-development through:
    • Learning by doing,
    • Teamwork though the patrol system and training for responsible leadership, and
    • Active cooperation between young people and adults.

Each Guide/Girl Scout defines her own progress and development according to her needs and aspirations within the framework program provided. This contrasts with many formal education systems where young people must fit themselves into a rigid structure with little recognition of individual needs and differences. The Girl Guide/Girl Scout method is the specific way that the leadership works with girls and young women to achieve the mission of WAGGGS. It is an integrated approach with certain key elements: The Girl Guiding/Girl Scouting method can be used equally effectively with girls of all ages, abilities and backgrounds. In his book "Girl Guiding," Lord Baden-Powell (1918) wrote:

  • "Our method of training is to educate from within rather than to instruct from without; to offer games and activities which, while being attractive to the girl, will seriously educate her morally, mentally and physically."

Since the organisation's founding, many Girl Guides and Girl Scouts have achieved positions as leading politicians, writers, businesswomen, and leaders. Senator Hillary Clinton (United States Senate), the Rt. Hon Dr. Marjorie Mowlam MP (politician in the United Kingdom), Roberta Bondar Ph.D., MD (first Canadian woman astronaut), and Betty Okwir (leading politician in Uganda) are a few former and current Girl Guides and Girl Scouts.

In 1965, Dame Leslie Whateley of the then-Girl Guides World Bureau was awarded the Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting.

Amongst its global initiatives, Free Being Me, a collaboration between WAGGGS and Unilever's Dove Self Esteem Project was launched in October 2013, with the aim of increasing "self-esteem and body confidence" in girls.[3]

History

Girl Guides were formed in 1910 by Robert Baden-Powell, with the assistance of his sister Agnes Baden-Powell. After his marriage in 1912, his wife Olave Baden-Powell took a leading role in the development of Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting.

As the movement spread, independent national Guiding associations were set up; however, a need for international cooperation was felt. Lady Baden-Powell founded an informal International Council in London in February 1918. At the fourth World Conference held at Camp Edith Macy in 1926, representatives from several countries suggested the formation of a World Association to take the place of the informal International Council. After the 1926 International Conference the Baden-Powells were approached about setting up a formal association and in 1928 the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts was founded at the 5th International Conference held in Parád, Hungary.[4] Rose Kerr was Vice Chairman, later Commissioner for Tenderfoot Countries. From 1930 to 1939 WAGGGS occupied a room at the headquarters of the British Girl Guide Association, until it moved to 9 Palace Street, next door to Our Ark.

In 1920, two leaders from each known Guide country were invited to the British County Commissioners Conference held at Saint Hugh's College, Oxford. This became known as the First International Conference. The 13th World Conference was held in the same college in 1950. The member organizations continue to meet every three years (initially every two years) at World Conferences.[5]

List of chairs of the World Committee / World Board

List of directors / chief executives

  • Dame Katharine Furse (1926–1936) - First director
  • Arethusa Leigh-White (1937–1946)
  • Winnifred Kydd (1947–1948)
  • Elizabeth Fry (Acting Director 1948–1949)
  • M.E. Home (1949-1950)
  • Dame Leslie Whateley (1951–1964)
  • Lesley Bulman-Lever (1997–2006)
  • Mary McPhail (2007–2014)
  • Anita Tiessen (2014–2017)
  • David Coe (interim, August 2017–March 2018)
  • Sarah Nancollas (March 2018–)[7]

World Conference

Main article: World Conference (World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts)

The World Conference is the governing body and meets every three years. If a country has more than one association, the associations form a federation for coordination and world representation.

Organization

WAGGGS consists of national Member Organizations which are run independently but agree to abide by the WAGGGS constitution. The national Member Organizations are split into five regions. The member organizations in turn elect the World Board, originally the World Committee, which governs the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. It is made up of 17 active volunteer members from around the world who are democratically elected by all Member Organizations and include the Chairs from each of the five WAGGGS regions. In addition there is the permanent staff of the World Bureau based in London and headed by the WAGGGS Chief Executive (formerly Director of the World Bureau). Every three years representatives from the member states meet in a World Conference to discuss and vote on policy. The World Committee changed its name to the World Board in 1996. The job title of the head of staff was changed from Director of the World Bureau to Chief Executive between 1964 and 1997.

Each WAGGGS Member Organization chooses how it believes it can best promote these goals, taking into account its culture and the needs of its young people. Some choose to work with girls alone in a single sex environment in order to break down stereotypes and to give girls and young women the confidence to take their place in society. Other Member Organizations prefer to work with mixed groups to enable young women and young men equal partnership within their units. Some Organizations choose to mix co-educational and single sex approaches according to the age and the preferences of the young people.

World regions

 
The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts has offices in five regional divisions:
  WAGGGS-Europe Region
  WAGGGS-Arab Region
  WAGGGS-Africa Region
  WAGGGS-Asia Pacific Region
  WAGGGS-Western Hemisphere Region
  There is no WAGGGS Region corresponding to the World Organization of the Scout Movement Eurasian Region; post-Soviet nations are divided between the WAGGGS-Europe Region and the WAGGGS-Asia Pacific Region
  grey areas such as North Korea, Laos and Cuba have no Scouting

The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts has five regions: Europe, Arab, Africa, Asia and Western Hemisphere.

World Centres

Main article: World Centre (WAGGGS)

WAGGGS operates five World Centres that offer training programmes, activities and lodging for girls and leaders, as well as members of some other groups and independent travellers. Activities are primarily focused on international friendship and cooperation, personal development and leadership training, enjoyment and service. The Friends of the Four World Centres organisation supports and promotes the centres.

The five World Centres are:

A new centre, Kusafiri, meaning “to journey” in Swahili, was announced in 2015. Unlike the other centres it will be a roving centre and exist for a fixed period of time in different places with a particular theme in Africa.[8] While testing the idea, starting in 2012, the country organizations involved include Ghana, South Africa, Rwanda, Kenya, Nigeria, and Benin. Focuses so far have included “Stopping the Violence” training in Rwanda and developing entrepreneurial leaders among others.[8]

World Trefoil

 
WAGGGS membership badge

Miss Kari Aas designed the World Trefoil emblem that was adopted at the World Conference in 1930, a gold trefoil on a blue background.[9]

The three leaves represent the three duties and the three parts of the promise, the two five point-stars stand for the promise and the law and the vein in the centre represents the compass needle showing the right way. The base of the trefoil stands for the flame of the love of humanity and the colours blue and gold represent the sun shining over all children in the world.[10]

The World Badge, incorporating the trefoil, was first adopted at the 11th World Conference in Evian, France in 1946.[11]

The World Association Badge, similar in design to the World Badge, was first adopted at the 7th World Conference in Bucze, near Górki Wielkie in Poland, in 1932. It is worn by members of the World Board, its Committees, World Bureau and World Centre staff.[11]

See also

References

  1. ^ "World Scouting and the United Nations".
  2. ^ "WAGGGS and the UN".
  3. ^ (PDF). WAGGS. 11 October 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  4. ^ "History of WAGGGS".
  5. ^ "World Conference".
  6. ^ "Heidi Jokinen elected World Board Chair".
  7. ^ "The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts has appointed a new CEO". WAGGGS. Retrieved 2018-01-26.
  8. ^ a b "Kusafiri". World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  9. ^ "World Association of Girl Guide and Girl Scouts". www.vintagegirlscout.com.
  10. ^ . wagggsworld.org. WAGGGS. Archived from the original on December 31, 2006. Retrieved March 30, 2006.
  11. ^ a b "Symbols of the movement". WAGGGS.
  • Scouting Round the World, John S. Wilson, first edition, Blandford Press 1959 page 203.

External links

  • World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts website
  • Olave Baden-Powell Society
  • WAGGGS Web Ring
  • Differences in Fundamental Principles of WOSM and WAGGGS

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The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts WAGGGS w ae ɡ z is a global association supporting the female oriented and female only Guiding and Scouting organizations in 152 countries It was established in 1928 in Parad Hungary and has its headquarters in London United Kingdom It is the counterpart of the World Organization of the Scout Movement WOSM WAGGGS is organized into five regions and operates five international Guiding centers It holds full member status in the European Youth Forum YFJ which operates within the Council of Europe and European Union areas and works closely with these bodies World Association of Girl Guides and Girl ScoutsHeadquartersWorld Bureau Olave Centre LondonCountry152 countriesFounded1928FounderRobert Baden PowellMembership10 millionChair World BoardHeidi JokinenCEOAnna SegallWebsitewww wagggs org Scouting portal Contents 1 Mission 2 Educational methods 3 History 3 1 List of chairs of the World Committee World Board 3 2 List of directors chief executives 4 World Conference 5 Organization 5 1 World regions 5 2 World Centres 6 World Trefoil 7 See also 8 References 9 External linksMission EditThis article contains wording that promotes the subject in a subjective manner without imparting real information Please remove or replace such wording and instead of making proclamations about a subject s importance use facts and attribution to demonstrate that importance November 2012 Learn how and when to remove this template message The mission of the WAGGGS is to enable girls and young women to reach for their potential as responsible citizens of the world WAGGGS provides a non formal educational program that provides training in life skills leadership and decision making It also offers projects and programs at an international level that enable Girl Guides and Girl Scouts to be responsible world citizens through action and activity in the community WAGGGS is run by women for girls and young women Girl Guides and Girl Scouts are trained in leadership and decision making and are encouraged to participate in the governance and leadership of WAGGGS Each individual unit is democratically run with Girl Guides and Girl Scouts actively involved in leadership and in decision making Girl Guiding Girl Scouting is open to all girls and young women without distinction of creed race nationality or any other circumstance WAGGGS believes that the education of girls and the education of boys includes education for equal partnership Young men and young women are taught to recognize their differences and their similarities and to respect each other as individuals Girl Guiding Girl Scouting is a voluntary organisation that relies on over 100 000 volunteers around the world to implement programs for Girl Guides and Girl Scouts and to give girls and young women support and leadership There are over 10 million Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 152 countries Girl Guides and Girl Scouts from around the world can meet each other at international events at one of the five World Centers There are many opportunities to attend international events run by the United Nations or other non governmental organizations on behalf of the Association The WOSM is the non governmental organization NGO that represents the Scouting movement at the United Nations 1 The WOSM and WAGGGS both have General Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council 2 Educational methods EditGirl Guiding Girl Scouting is based on a core set of values that are found in the Girl Guide Girl Scout Promise and Law Each Girl Guide and Girl Scout promises to do her best to her faith and to others and in so doing she realizes her fullest potential as a responsible citizen Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting uses non formal educational methods Non formal education is organized educational activity outside schools and colleges The key components of non formal education are that Young people can develop life skills and attitudes based on an integrated value system based on the Promise and Law Young people learn from their peer group Young people learn through activities and practical programs that are created by young people for young people Young people volunteer to join non formal education organizations that are led also by volunteers that ensure commitment and maximum learning Young people learn by progressive self development through Learning by doing Teamwork though the patrol system and training for responsible leadership and Active cooperation between young people and adults Each Guide Girl Scout defines her own progress and development according to her needs and aspirations within the framework program provided This contrasts with many formal education systems where young people must fit themselves into a rigid structure with little recognition of individual needs and differences The Girl Guide Girl Scout method is the specific way that the leadership works with girls and young women to achieve the mission of WAGGGS It is an integrated approach with certain key elements The Girl Guiding Girl Scouting method can be used equally effectively with girls of all ages abilities and backgrounds In his book Girl Guiding Lord Baden Powell 1918 wrote Our method of training is to educate from within rather than to instruct from without to offer games and activities which while being attractive to the girl will seriously educate her morally mentally and physically Since the organisation s founding many Girl Guides and Girl Scouts have achieved positions as leading politicians writers businesswomen and leaders Senator Hillary Clinton United States Senate the Rt Hon Dr Marjorie Mowlam MP politician in the United Kingdom Roberta Bondar Ph D MD first Canadian woman astronaut and Betty Okwir leading politician in Uganda are a few former and current Girl Guides and Girl Scouts In 1965 Dame Leslie Whateley of the then Girl Guides World Bureau was awarded the Bronze Wolf the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting Amongst its global initiatives Free Being Me a collaboration between WAGGGS and Unilever s Dove Self Esteem Project was launched in October 2013 with the aim of increasing self esteem and body confidence in girls 3 History EditGirl Guides were formed in 1910 by Robert Baden Powell with the assistance of his sister Agnes Baden Powell After his marriage in 1912 his wife Olave Baden Powell took a leading role in the development of Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting As the movement spread independent national Guiding associations were set up however a need for international cooperation was felt Lady Baden Powell founded an informal International Council in London in February 1918 At the fourth World Conference held at Camp Edith Macy in 1926 representatives from several countries suggested the formation of a World Association to take the place of the informal International Council After the 1926 International Conference the Baden Powells were approached about setting up a formal association and in 1928 the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts was founded at the 5th International Conference held in Parad Hungary 4 Rose Kerr was Vice Chairman later Commissioner for Tenderfoot Countries From 1930 to 1939 WAGGGS occupied a room at the headquarters of the British Girl Guide Association until it moved to 9 Palace Street next door to Our Ark In 1920 two leaders from each known Guide country were invited to the British County Commissioners Conference held at Saint Hugh s College Oxford This became known as the First International Conference The 13th World Conference was held in the same college in 1950 The member organizations continue to meet every three years initially every two years at World Conferences 5 List of chairs of the World Committee World Board Edit 1928 1928 Rose Kerr 1929 1929 Esther Welmoet Wijnaendts Francken Dyserinck 1930 1934 Helen Storrow 1935 1936 Maria Dillner 1936 1946 Marie Therese de Kerraoul 1946 1948 Nadine Corbett 1948 1950 Ethel J Newton 1950 1952 Sylvi Visapaa 1952 1957 Helen Means 1957 1960 Estelle Bernadotte 1960 1966 Dora Lykiardopoulo 1966 1969 Mary Nesbitt 1969 1972 Marjorie M Culmer 1972 1975 Beryl Cozens Hardy 1975 1981 Joyce Price 1981 1984 Helen M Laird 1984 1987 Doris Stockmann 1987 1990 Odile Bonte 1990 1993 Barbara Hayes 1993 1996 Doris Riehm 1996 1999 Heather Brandon 1999 2002 Ginny Radford 2002 2005 Kirsty Gray 2005 2008 Elspeth Henderson 2008 2011 Margaret Treloar 2011 2014 Nadine El Achy 2014 2017 Nicola Grinstead 2017 2020 Ana Maria Mideros 2020 present Heidi Jokinen 6 List of directors chief executives Edit This section needs expansion You can help by adding to it January 2010 Dame Katharine Furse 1926 1936 First director Arethusa Leigh White 1937 1946 Winnifred Kydd 1947 1948 Elizabeth Fry Acting Director 1948 1949 M E Home 1949 1950 Dame Leslie Whateley 1951 1964 Lesley Bulman Lever 1997 2006 Mary McPhail 2007 2014 Anita Tiessen 2014 2017 David Coe interim August 2017 March 2018 Sarah Nancollas March 2018 7 World Conference EditMain article World Conference World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts The World Conference is the governing body and meets every three years If a country has more than one association the associations form a federation for coordination and world representation Organization EditWAGGGS consists of national Member Organizations which are run independently but agree to abide by the WAGGGS constitution The national Member Organizations are split into five regions The member organizations in turn elect the World Board originally the World Committee which governs the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts It is made up of 17 active volunteer members from around the world who are democratically elected by all Member Organizations and include the Chairs from each of the five WAGGGS regions In addition there is the permanent staff of the World Bureau based in London and headed by the WAGGGS Chief Executive formerly Director of the World Bureau Every three years representatives from the member states meet in a World Conference to discuss and vote on policy The World Committee changed its name to the World Board in 1996 The job title of the head of staff was changed from Director of the World Bureau to Chief Executive between 1964 and 1997 Each WAGGGS Member Organization chooses how it believes it can best promote these goals taking into account its culture and the needs of its young people Some choose to work with girls alone in a single sex environment in order to break down stereotypes and to give girls and young women the confidence to take their place in society Other Member Organizations prefer to work with mixed groups to enable young women and young men equal partnership within their units Some Organizations choose to mix co educational and single sex approaches according to the age and the preferences of the young people World regions Edit The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts has offices in five regional divisions WAGGGS Europe Region WAGGGS Arab Region WAGGGS Africa Region WAGGGS Asia Pacific Region WAGGGS Western Hemisphere Region There is no WAGGGS Region corresponding to the World Organization of the Scout Movement Eurasian Region post Soviet nations are divided between the WAGGGS Europe Region and the WAGGGS Asia Pacific Region grey areas such as North Korea Laos and Cuba have no Scouting The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts has five regions Europe Arab Africa Asia and Western Hemisphere World Centres Edit Main article World Centre WAGGGS WAGGGS operates five World Centres that offer training programmes activities and lodging for girls and leaders as well as members of some other groups and independent travellers Activities are primarily focused on international friendship and cooperation personal development and leadership training enjoyment and service The Friends of the Four World Centres organisation supports and promotes the centres The five World Centres are Our Chalet in Adelboden Switzerland opened in 1932 Pax Lodge in Hampstead London England current location opened in 1990 It is actually London s third World Centre the first was Our Ark opened in 1937 which was renamed Olave House on its 25th anniversary Our Cabana in Cuernavaca Mexico opened in 1957 Sangam in Pune Maharashtra India opened in 1966 Kusafiri moving between cities Africa opened in 2010A new centre Kusafiri meaning to journey in Swahili was announced in 2015 Unlike the other centres it will be a roving centre and exist for a fixed period of time in different places with a particular theme in Africa 8 While testing the idea starting in 2012 the country organizations involved include Ghana South Africa Rwanda Kenya Nigeria and Benin Focuses so far have included Stopping the Violence training in Rwanda and developing entrepreneurial leaders among others 8 World Trefoil Edit WAGGGS membership badge Miss Kari Aas designed the World Trefoil emblem that was adopted at the World Conference in 1930 a gold trefoil on a blue background 9 The three leaves represent the three duties and the three parts of the promise the two five point stars stand for the promise and the law and the vein in the centre represents the compass needle showing the right way The base of the trefoil stands for the flame of the love of humanity and the colours blue and gold represent the sun shining over all children in the world 10 The World Badge incorporating the trefoil was first adopted at the 11th World Conference in Evian France in 1946 11 The World Association Badge similar in design to the World Badge was first adopted at the 7th World Conference in Bucze near Gorki Wielkie in Poland in 1932 It is worn by members of the World Board its Committees World Bureau and World Centre staff 11 See also EditList of World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts members World Board World Citizenship AwardReferences Edit World Scouting and the United Nations WAGGGS and the UN PRESS RELEASE PDF WAGGS 11 October 2013 Archived from the original PDF on 2 April 2015 Retrieved 3 March 2015 History of WAGGGS World Conference Heidi Jokinen elected World Board Chair The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts has appointed a new CEO WAGGGS Retrieved 2018 01 26 a b Kusafiri World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts Retrieved 10 January 2016 World Association of Girl Guide and Girl Scouts www vintagegirlscout com The World Trefoil wagggsworld org WAGGGS Archived from the original on December 31 2006 Retrieved March 30 2006 a b Symbols of the movement WAGGGS Scouting Round the World John S Wilson first edition Blandford Press 1959 page 203 External links EditWorld Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts website Olave Baden Powell Society WAGGGS Web Ring Differences in Fundamental Principles of WOSM and WAGGGS Retrieved from https en wikipedia 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