World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) is the World Organization of Scouts . It is the world's largest voluntary organization for girls and young women with almost 10 million members in 146 countries. Girl scout associations from 33 other countries are working towards membership.
The organization was founded in 1928 by Olave Baden-Powell . As a forerunner, the International Council was created in 1919. She has a seat on the world committee of ISGF / AISG ( International Scout and Guide Fellowship ), the world association of ancient scouts. The symbol of the WAGGGS is a clover leaf , which is surrounded by its stem.
The WAGGGS was the female counterpart to the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM).
Member associations in German-speaking countries
Member associations in German-speaking countries are:
- in Belgium the governing body Guidisme et Scoutisme en Belgique / s Gidsen- Scoutsbeweging in Belgium from
- the French-speaking associations:
- Guides Catholiques de Belgique (GCB; also active in the German-speaking community of Belgium: District Obere Weser)
- Scouts et Guides Pluralistes de Belgique
- the Dutch-speaking associations:
- the French-speaking associations:
- in Germany the Ring German Guide associations from
- in Liechtenstein the boy scouts of Liechtenstein
- in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg the Lëtzebuerger Guiden a Scouten
- in Austria the scouts of Austria
- in Switzerland the Scout Movement Switzerland
- in South Tyrol (Italy), the Italian Scout Federation of
- the Associazione Guide e Scouts Cattolici Italiani with the
- Corpo Nazionale Giovani Esploratori ed Esploratrici Italiani
World regions
The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts is divided into five regions in which all member associations of the respective region must work together:
- WAGGGS-Europe region
- WAGGGS-Arab region
- WAGGGS-Africa Region
- WAGGGS-Asia-Pacific Region
- WAGGGS-Western Hemisphere Region
Unlike the World Organization of the Scout Movement, WAGGGS has not set up a separate region for the states on the territory of the former Soviet Union . All previously admitted member associations from this area have joined the Europe Region ; in the Central Asian states, which will probably belong to the Asia-Pacific region , there are no member associations so far.
World centers
The organization maintains five so-called world centers :
- Switzerland : Our Chalet , built in 1932
- Mexico : Our Cabaña , built in 1957
- India : Sangam , established in 1966
- England : Pax Lodge , built in 1991
- Africa : Kusafiri , founded 2010 (migrates)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from July 3, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from December 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ WAGGGS-Constitution ( Memento of September 23, 2006 in the Internet Archive )