World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts

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Sign of the 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:

World regions

Map of the WAGGGS regions; in gray-hued countries like Laos and Cuba there are no scout associations

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 :

Web links

Commons : World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Archive link ( Memento from July 3, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  2. Archive link ( Memento from December 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ WAGGGS-Constitution ( Memento of September 23, 2006 in the Internet Archive )