The Girl Guides willl celebrate turning 100 years old since its existence in 1910. This is an exciting event for the Girl Scouts because it celebrates a time when the founder of Boys Scouts, Robert Baden started the Girl Scouts organisation in the United Kingdom.
The Girl Guides willl celebrate turning 100 years old since its existence in 1910. This is an exciting event for the Girl Scouts because it celebrates a time when the founder of Boys Scouts, Robert Baden started the Girl Scouts organisation in the United Kingdom.
In the same year, South Africa was involved with organisations from the United Kingdom, and ever since then it has become a part of the Girl Scouts family.
The girls are divided into age groups that consist of the Teddies aged 4 to 7 years, the Brownies age 7-10 years, the Rangers age 14 to 25, the Guides from age 10 to 15 and the Guiders which start from age 18 and above.
Dorothy Holder has been involved with Girl Scouts for 25 years and says that “even though the younger girls do not realise how important this is to us now, one day when they are older they can say to themselves that I was a part of the Girl Scouts when it turned 100 years old.”
The event allows countries worldwide to be a part of the celebration. Members who were previously part of the Girl Scouts are encouraged to attend this special occasion to celebrate 100 years in the making with future Guiders.
Holder says “I find that the programme teaches girls about self-reliance, character and team building and learning to take care of oneself in another environment.”
After so many years in training she continues to nurture the attitudes of young girls because she believes it creates better citizens for the future.
A sense of community is built among members and Holder describes it as an instant family. “I can go to Johannesburg for national training and even if I meet people I don’t know I share common concepts and ideas with them.”
The Girl Guide Centenary celebration will form a new part of history as current and previous members pronounce their promises and create another family reunion.
She concludes,“Each age group in the Girl Guides makes a promise to care and share with those around them, a promise to do a good deed and the promise to serve God and her country.
These promises apply to their everyday lives and they create a form of citizenship within their schools and communities.” The past years have shown true success for the Girls Guide and members will continue to create citizens who are committed to creating a firm future.
