The Kenya Girl Guides Association

The Kenya Girl Guides Association was the first WAGGGS’ Member Organization to be presented with the award. The Shanzu Cadets won the award for the ‘Shanzu Transitional Workshop for Disabled Girls’ which developed a programme for handicapped girls at the Rehabilitation Centre in Shanzu to grow their own food and to be aware of the necessity of water in their arid region.

The Hawkers Market received the FAO/WAGGGS Nutrition Medal on World Food Day 1998. Girl Guides at the centre have learned how to grow food crops, harvest beans, spinach and maize. The Girl Guides have introduced a drip irrigation scheme to provide water for their crops during the dry weather. The girls also plan to make compost to improve the condition of the soil.

Princess Benedikte of Denmark, the Patron of the Olave Baden-Powell Society, visited the project as part of the 75th Anniversary celebrations of Girl Guiding in Kenya.

The projects in the Pará and Roraima Regions developed the communities’ understanding of nutritious values of food, preserving food, growing vegetables in gardens which would otherwise be left to become wasteland and education about the different uses of different parts of the vegetable, such as the roots.