Girls Leading Change Providing Service, Speaking Out

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Girls Leading Change Providing Service, Speaking
Out Taking Action
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Overview

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

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• The WAGGGS
• Global Action Theme (GAT) is
• Girls Worldwide say
• Together We Can Change Our World

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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!

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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.

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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.

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Big Opportunitiesto Serve, Speak and Act
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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

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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

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Juliette Low Seminars

• WAGGGS premier leadership event for young women
• Focuses on inter-cultural leadership and
  networking among heavily involved young adults

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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

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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

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The Hunger Feast
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Serve, Speak, Act Opportunities for Everyone

• WAGGGS Challenges and Programming
• GGC Programs, Challenges and Days of Action
• Independent Initiatives

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Challenges and Global Action Days

• 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

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Global Youth Service Day

• Annual celebration of youth service contributions
  worldwide
• Millions of participants globally
• Wide variety of activities

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Day of Action on Violence Against Women (December
6)

• Anniversary of lÉcole Polytechnique massacre
• Canada-wide challenge to learn about and protect
  ourselves from violence against women

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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

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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.

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Daddys Boat
Photo by Bailey Amadio, 7 yrs old, 1st Port
Morien Brownies, Nova Scotia
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International and WAGGGS Programming

• HIV/AIDS
• Teen pregnancy
• Right to Food
• Development projects

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Challenges we Face

• Topics can be controversial
• Follow-up and sharing is poor
• Needs to be girl-led and girl-focused

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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

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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?

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Wrap-up
Kristen Hope Coordinator, Community and Global
Awareness hopek_at_girlguides.ca