What do you do with girl guides ?? Just wondering cuz my sister is one
Sure! Girl Guides is a scouting organization that was originally an offshoot from Boy Scouts, so the two have a great deal of overlap in activitiesā in both youāll learn various knots, hiking and outdoor survival skills, camping, campfire songs, etcetera.Ā
Another big focus is female empowerment; we do a lot of charity projects for womenās organizations in other Ā countriesā thereās often a meeting devoted to violence against womenā and we have an entire component of the program devoted to STEM. We get a lot of female environmental engineers, doctors, and so on to come in and show them activities, and a lot of it actually helped me in high school science classes later on. Obviously itās not really heavy stuffĀ for, you know, ten-year-olds, more like experiments with water in bottles to show how the weather works, stuff like that.Ā
Guiding also has a big history of environmental awareness, and the promise and law have been modified in recent years to reflect this (āI will take action for a better world,āĀ ārespect our common environmentā) where we learn about local endangered species endemic to the region. When I was in Girl Guides, we participated in the Canadian Shoreline Cleanup and the Everett Crowley Park tree-planting on Earth Day.Ā
Thereās also cookie selling, which is a fuckingĀ slog, but I mean, they taste awesome and fund all of our activities. It got me pretty used to marketing, handling money and going door-to-door at a young age, so, thereās that.Ā
Overall it was a pretty positive experience for me, one of those nice women-only safe spaces where I could really be myself when school got judgemental⦠but the trouble is finding a good unit with capable leaders : |