Changes: World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts

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The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts is the largest voluntary movement dedicated to girls and young women in the world. The diverse movement represents ten million girls and young women from 146 countries.

Their strengths lie in innovative non-formal education programs, leadership development, advocacy work and community action, empowering girls and young women to develop the skills and confidence needed to make positive changes in their lives, in their communities and countries. They deliver these programs in five WAGGGS’ Regions: Africa, Arab, Asia Pacific, Europe and Western Hemisphere. They also hold advocacy and leadership events at four World Centres: Our Chalet in Switzerland, Sangam in India, Pax Lodge in UK and Our Cabaña in Mexico. Through their global programs, girls from all over the world come together to learn new skills, share their international experiences and form lifelong friendships.

News and Development

July 2014: Ms. Joyce Ong Choon Kim, a member of the Girl Guides Association Malaysia Trainers' Council reports that in Malaysia girl guiding is primarily school based and is used as a platform for public awareness programs including solar cooking.
1990-2008: One of the foremost advocate for solar cooking activities within the WAGGS network is Ms.Barby Pulliam residing in the USA. This tireless worker has conducted workshops in over 50 countries, with an estimated thousands of guide/scout leaders and leaders of other non-governmental groups at the same time.

External links

http://www.wagggs.org

Contact

World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
World Bureau, Olave Centre
12c Lyndhurst Road
London, NW3 5PQ
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7794 1181
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7431 3764

Email: wagggs@wagggs.org
Web: http://www.wagggs.org

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+The '''World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts''' is the largest voluntary movement dedicated to girls and young women in the world. The diverse movement represents ten million girls and young women from 146 countries.
-The global headquarters of the '''World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts''' (WAGGS) movement is located in the [[United Kingdom]], but the heart of its activities in solar cooking is in {{State|California}}, [[USA]], where the foremost advocate for solar cooking activities within the WAGGS network, Ms.[[Barby Pulliam]], lives. This tireless worker has conducted workshops literally around the world, on several continents and to hundreds of guide/scout leaders and leaders of other non-governmental groups at the same time.
+Their strengths lie in innovative non-formal education programs, leadership development, advocacy work and community action, empowering girls and young women to develop the skills and confidence needed to make positive changes in their lives, in their communities and countries.  They deliver these programs in  five WAGGGS’ Regions:  Africa, Arab, Asia Pacific, Europe and Western Hemisphere. They also hold advocacy and leadership events at four World Centres: Our Chalet in Switzerland, Sangam in India, Pax Lodge in UK and Our Cabaña in Mexico. Through their global programs, girls from all over the world come together to learn new skills, share their international experiences and form lifelong friendships.
-WAGGS is an organization that has 100,000 volunteers, and perhaps ten million
-girl guides/scouts in the 70 countries where it is active. The organization is divided into
-five regions, is managed by a 17-person board, and holds a world meeting every fourth
-year, moving from continent to continent. The organization's mission is clearly stated:
-service to girls and young women. Programs employ the following principles: a value
-base, peer education (learning from one another), experiential learning (learning from
-doing) and volunteer leadership.
+===News and Development===
-Ms. Pulliam has created training guides, cookbooks, CDs, Power Point
+*'''July 2014''': Ms. [[Joyce Ong Choon Kim]], a member of the Girl Guides Association Malaysia Trainers' Council reports that in [[Malaysia]] girl guiding is primarily school based and is used as a platform for public awareness programs including solar cooking.
-presentations, and other educational materials on solar cooking. In the early years of her
+*'''1990-2008''': One of the foremost advocate for solar cooking activities within the WAGGS network is Ms.[[Barby Pulliam]] residing in the [[USA]]. This tireless worker has conducted workshops in over 50 countries, with an estimated thousands of guide/scout leaders and leaders of other non-governmental groups at the same time.
-work, she principally conducted workshops for new cooks; more recently she has
+[[Category:NGOs]]
-concentrated on training others to be the trainers of new solar cooks. A detailed outline
+[[Category:UK]]
-for a 5-day training course for trainers is available for leaders of scout groups and other
+[[Category:Youth]]
-organizations. More recently, Ms.Pulliam (sometimes in concert with [[Rotary International | Rotary]] activities) has been promoting what is known as the "[[Integrated Cooking Method]]". The approach teaches households how to create a complete cooking system, using a fuel-efficient stove (for times of rain or darkness), a haybox or retained heat cooker, and a solar cooker. Ms. Pulliam is an energetic trainer whose training is always accompanied by songs and exercises, in good Scout tradition.
+[[Category:Verified active 2016]]
-To date, she has conducted workshops in over 20 countries, with an estimated
-thousand attendees. The overwhelming bulk of her work has been personally supported,
-at a very considerable cost to her. The WAGGS organization, in turn, has cooperated in
-the preparation and promotion of a badge in solar cooking for scouts and guides, as well
-as commitment to the programs of Ms. Pulliam.
+==See Also==
-Ms. Pulliam has, because of limited finances, been unable to conduct full-scale
+*[[Girl Guides Association of Malaysia]]<br />
-evaluations of the consequences of her very considerable volunteer effort. Her energy and
+*[[Girl Guides Association of Zimbabwe]]<br />
-enthusiasm for the cause of solar cooking is noteworthy and it is unfortunate that more
+*[[Girl Guides Association of Papua New Guinea]]<br />
-adequate documentation of the lasting consequences of her work is not available. Her
+*[[Girl Guides Association of South Africa]]<br />
-work in this area, dating to the early 1990s has been continuous and well integrated with
+*[[Girl Scouts Heart of Central California]]
-WAGGS activities. The impact on girls and young women may well be considerable and
-a careful evaluation is clearly called for.
 ==External links==
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 [[United Kingdom]]
-Tel: +44 (0)20 7794 1181<br />
+Tel: +44 (0) 20 7794 1181<br />
-Fax: +44 (0)20 7431 3764
+Fax: +44 (0) 20 7431 3764
-Email: [mailto:wagggs@wagggsworld.org wagggs@wagggsworld.org]
+Email: [mailto:wagggs@wagggs.org wagggs@wagggs.org]<br />
+Web: http://www.wagggs.org
 [[Category:NGOs]]
-[[Category:New York]]
-[[Category:USA]]
 [[Category:UK]]
-[[Category:I2N]]
 [[Category:Youth]]
-[[Category:Verified active 2014]]
+[[Category:Verified active 2016]]