Transcript take action - Girl Guides of Canada.

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”
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!
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.
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.
Big Opportunities
to Serve, Speak and Act
Take Action! Academies
Ecuador Youth Trips
Juliette Low Seminars
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
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
Juliette Low Seminars
• WAGGGS’ premier
leadership event for
young women
• Focuses on intercultural leadership
and networking
among heavily
involved young
adults
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
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
The Hunger Feast
Serve, Speak, Act –
Opportunities for Everyone
• WAGGGS Challenges and Programming
• GGC Programs, Challenges and Days of
Action
• Independent Initiatives
Challenges and Global Action Days
•
Global Youth Service Day
•
Lady Baden Powell Challenge
•
December 6 – Day of Action on
Violence Against Women
•
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
•
Tree Planting Grant
•
PhotoVoice (starting April 2009) )
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Through WAGGGS
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HIV/AIDS
Teen pregnancy
Right to Food
Raising money for and/or visiting
Mutual Aid/Twinning/CWFF projects
Global Youth Service Day
• Annual celebration of
youth service
contributions
worldwide
• Millions of participants
globally
• Wide variety of
activities
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
Tree Planting Grant
• GGC grants up to
$500 to facilitate treeplanting or habitat
restoration activities
• Empowers girls to
take real, tangible
action in their
communities
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.
Daddy’s Boat
Photo by:
Bailey
Amadio,
7 yrs old,
1st Port
Morien
Brownies,
Nova
Scotia
International and WAGGGS
Programming
• HIV/AIDS
• Teen pregnancy
• Right to Food
• Development projects
Challenges we Face
• Topics can be controversial
• Follow-up and sharing is poor
• Needs to be girl-led and girl-focused
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
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?
Wrap-up
Kristen Hope – Coordinator, Community and Global Awareness
[email protected]