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Girls Leading Change Providing Service, Speaking Out & Taking Action

Girls Leading Change Providing Service, Speaking Out & Taking Action. Overview. Serve, Speak and Act Big Opportunities Opportunities for Everyone Where can we go from here?. The WAGGGS Global Action Theme (GAT) is: Girls Worldwide say: “Together We Can Change Our World”.

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Girls Leading Change Providing Service, Speaking Out & Taking Action

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  1. Girls Leading ChangeProvidingService, Speaking Out & Taking Action

  2. Overview • Serve, Speak and Act • Big Opportunities • Opportunities for Everyone • Where can we go from here?

  3. The WAGGGS Global Action Theme (GAT) is: Girls Worldwide say: “Together We Can Change Our World”

  4. The WAGGGS Advocacy Tool Kit Advocacy We influence people to take decisions that will improve our lives and the lives of others Take a stand and work for positive change!

  5. Serve, Speak, Act in GGC GGC Strategic Priority #3: Girl Members will contribute to a better world through providing service, speaking out and taking action on issues important to them. Serve, Speak, Act also directly relates to Strategic Priority #1 and indirectly relates to Strategic Priority #2.

  6. What is Serve, Speak, Act? • Serve is helping, everyday kindness • Speak is to advocate • Act is to take action yourself All are elements of service.

  7. Workshops Trips Take Action! Academies Ecuador Youth Trips Seminars Juliette Low Seminars Big Opportunitiesto Serve, Speak and Act

  8. Take Action! Academies • Run by Me to We (Free The Children) • Week-long events held in four cities across Canada • Attendees learn and use skills for speaking out and taking action

  9. Ecuador Youth Trip • Run by Me to We (Free the Children) • Attendees work on serve, speak, act projects in a village and make connections with Ecuadorian Girl Guides

  10. Juliette Low Seminars • WAGGGS’ premier leadership event for young women • Focuses on inter-cultural leadership and networking among heavily involved young adults

  11. Serve, Speak & Act on Other Trips • Some World Centre, Provincial and independently organised trips also focus on Service, Speaking Out and Taking Action • Lets encourage more! • More trips/opportunities with a focus on Serving, Speaking Out & Taking Action • More sharing of big experiences of Serving, Speaking Out & Taking Action

  12. Big Opportunities • Have a big impact on participants • Tend to be expensive and thus limited to just a few girls we can send and who can afford to go • Need for sharing post-event

  13. The Hunger Feast

  14. Serve, Speak, Act – Opportunities for Everyone • WAGGGS Challenges and Programming • GGC Programs, Challenges and Days of Action • Independent Initiatives

  15. Global Youth Service Day December 6 – Day of Action on Violence Against Women Tree Planting Grant PhotoVoice (starting April 2009) ) Through WAGGGS HIV/AIDS Teen pregnancy Right to Food Raising money for and/or visiting Mutual Aid/Twinning/CWFF projects Lady Baden Powell Challenge Habitat for Humanity Challenge World Food Day CyberCitizen challenge Climate Change/Yukon Challenge Take our Girls to Vote Girls United Girls EmPower Community Safety Audits Challenges and Global Action Days

  16. Global Youth Service Day • Annual celebration of youth service contributions worldwide • Millions of participants globally • Wide variety of activities

  17. Day of Action on Violence Against Women (December 6) • Anniversary of l’École Polytechnique massacre • Canada-wide challenge to learn about and protect ourselves from violence against women

  18. Tree Planting Grant • GGC grants up to $500 to facilitate tree-planting or habitat restoration activities • Empowers girls to take real, tangible action in their communities

  19. Canadian Girls Say: PhotoVoice • Girls express their thoughts through photos • Photos can be of problems or points of pride • Photos will be featured in an online gallery and a report on girls-identified issues.

  20. Daddy’s Boat Photo by: Bailey Amadio, 7 yrs old, 1st Port Morien Brownies, Nova Scotia

  21. International and WAGGGS Programming • HIV/AIDS • Teen pregnancy • Right to Food • Development projects

  22. Challenges we Face • Topics can be controversial • Follow-up and sharing is poor • Needs to be girl-led and girl-focused

  23. Where can we go from here? • Incorporate and promote service, speaking out and taking action in more aspects of GGC • Remove barriers to girls providing service, speaking out and taking action • Be girl-focused! Listen to girls

  24. How YOU can help Can you directly support girls Providing Service, Speaking Out and Taking Action? Does your network do anything that might impede girls’ ability to Serve, Speak and Act?

  25. Wrap-up Kristen Hope – Coordinator, Community and Global Awareness hopek@girlguides.ca

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