World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts

The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts ( WAGGGS ) is the World Organization of the Scouts. It is the world's largest voluntary organization for girls and young women with nearly 10 million members in 145 countries. Guide associations from 33 other countries are working towards membership.

It was founded in 1928 by WAGGGS Olave Baden- Powell. The International Council as a forerunner was created in 1919.

The WAGGGS is thus the female counterpart of the World Organization of the Scout Movement ( WOSM ). She has a seat on the Committee of ISGF / AISG (International Scout and Guide Fellowship ), the World Association of Altpfadfinder.

The symbol of WAGGGS is a shamrock, which is surrounded by its stalk.

Member Associations

Member associations in the German-speaking area are:

  • In Belgium, the umbrella organization Guidisme et Scoutisme s Belgique/Gidsen- s Scoutsbeweging in België from the French-speaking associations: Guides Catholiques de Belgique (GCB; worked in the German-speaking Community of Belgium: District of Upper Weser)
  • Scouts et Guides de Belgique Pluralistes
  • Scouts en Gidsen Vlaanderen ( SGV )
  • FOS Open Scouting
  • Federation of Scouts and Guides
  • Girl Scouts shaft Saint George
  • Association of Christian Scouts and Guides
  • Association of Girl Guides Luxembourgeoises
  • Lëtzebuerger Guiding a scouting
  • The Associazione Guide e Scouts Cattolici Italiani with the South Tyrolean Scout Association

Regions of the world

The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts is divided into five regions in which all member organizations of the region need to work together:

Unlike the World Organization of the Scout Movement WAGGGS has not set their own region for the states on the territory of the former Soviet Union. All captured so far, member associations from this area have joined the Europe Region; in the Central Asian states that are likely to belong to the Asia- Pacific region, there has been no member associations.

World centers

The WAGGGS has four so-called world centers:

  • Switzerland: Our Chalet, built in 1932
  • Mexico: Our Cabaña, built in 1957
  • India: Sangam, built in 1966
  • England: Pax Lodge, constructed in 1991
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