Girl Guide and Girl Scout
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- This is an article about the young person, for other meanings see Girl Guides.
- For girl Scouts in co-educational troops, see Boy Scout
- Girl Guide(s) will be used in this article as it is more common that Girl Scout, internationally. The terms are synonymous within this article.
A Girl Guide is a girl, usually 11 to 17 years of age, participating in the worldwide Scouting movement. This movement began in 1907, when Robert Baden-Powell held the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, South England. To advance his ideas, Baden-Powell wrote the book, Scouting for Boys, which targeted boy readership, and described the Scout method of using outdoor activities to develop character, citizenship, and personal fitness qualities among youth.
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[edit] Foundation
In September, 1909, a number of girls unexpectedly turned up to the first Scout Rally at the Crystal Palace, calling themselves Girl Scouts. In 1910 Baden-Powell set up the Girl Guides as a parallel female movement for them, run by his sister Agnes Baden-Powell. While Agnes played a major role until her death in 1945, Baden-Powell's wife, Olave Baden-Powell, became Chief Guide of England in 1918, and World Chief Guide in 1930. Baden-Powell wrote a separate handbook for the new organization, "How Girls can Help Build up the Empire: a Handbook for Girl Guides" (1912).
In 1914 a junior branch, originally called Rosebuds shortly changed to Brownies, parallel to Wolf Cubs in Boy Scouts, began.
The Girl Guides were named after the famous corps of guides in India, the Khyber Guides. Baden-Powell thought that to call them Scouts might alienate the boys, as well as the girls' parents.
Guides have come a long way since they were founded after the Crystal Palace rally and the new programmes for all sections reflect modern values and interests.
[edit] Activities
A Girl Guide learns the cornerstones of the Scout method. These are designed to instill character, citizenship, personal fitness, and leadership in girls through a structured program of activities. Most of these activities are conducted on the unit level.
[edit] Unit affiliation
The troop is the fundamental unit of the Girl Guides.
[edit] Uniforms
Individual national or other emblems may be found on the individual country's Scouting article, and/or at Gallery of Scout and Guide national emblems.
The Scout uniform is a specific characteristic of Scouting, in the words of Robert Baden-Powell at the 1938 World Jamboree, it "hides all differences of social standing in a country and makes for equality; but, more important still, it covers differences of country and race and creed, and makes all feel that they are members with one another of the one great brotherhood".<ref name="uniform">Wade, E.K. (1957). 27 Years With Baden-Powell (PDF). Why the Uniform?, ch 12. Pinetree.web. Retrieved on 2006-07-24.</ref>
The symbolism of the WAGGGS World trefoil is that 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.<ref>The World Trefoil. wagggs.org. Retrieved on 2006-03-30.</ref>
Scout shops sell uniforms, Scouting literature, badges, and other items such as camping equipment for local Scouts, and Scout souvenir items for visiting foreign Scouts. The shops are usually located at the local branch office of the Scout organization and may be run professionally or by volunteers.
[edit] See also
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