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IN SEPTEMBER 2009 Girlguiding UK will launch its Centenary Celebrations. Commemorating an event as special as our 100th birthday calls for more than just cake and balloons – in true Guiding fashion it calls for a challenge and so Changing the World has been launched.
There are 19 projects to choose from, each with different ways to take action and to channel the spirit of Guiding by helping others through raising awareness, raising money and by direct action.
Many of our units have already contributed to the pledged donations in the UK of 260,000 to date and deserve a big thank-you. The girls in the High Peak have chosen which project they want to support.
Some Rainbows (5– 7year olds) have been 'Singing for Change' together with Buxton Trefoil Guild to raise awareness and funds for Water Aid. Other Rainbows have been learning about homelessness and helping people to rebuild their lives with Crisis.
Many of our Brownies have chosen to support the National Deaf Children's Society by learning to sign their promise and so raise money towards a brand new Listening Bus.
Several Brownie and Guide units together with Chapel-en-le-Frith Trefoil Guild have been involved with Help the Hospices, learning the importance of their local hospices, helping them and the people they care for.
Guides have taken part in the 'Because I am a Girl' campaign for Plan and expressed their feelings of injustice through art and photography.
Some Guides have also been learning more about our shopping choices – 'Buy less and buy better' as part of the One Planet Challenge with WWF.
The whole of the Kinder District 'shouted out' on Thinking Day back in February, about the lack of education for girls in Africa and raised money for Camfed to enable more girls to attend school.
While some units in the High Peak Division have not completed their commitments yet and are still in the process of raising funds for their chosen project, many have already received their Changing the World Badge and have agreed that through this challenge they have learnt a great deal about the plight of others.
So a big thank-you also to the leaders for inspiring the girls and guiding them along the way.
Jane Collier
Division Commissioner
High Peak
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Thursday 24 May 2012
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