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From a Girl Guide to a change-maker

Valentine believes that commitment is everything and that true leadership means leading by example. As a Girl Guide, she fights for better nutrition and the empowerment of adolescent girls and women.

Najma gets school meals on the agenda

17 year old Najma Mohamed is a Girl Powered Nutrition Advocacy Champion in Tanzania. She joined the girl scouts movement (WAGGGS) when she was 8 years old. Encouraged by her parents, she started developing leadership skills at an early age.

Body confidence photo shoot

Group Leader Segomotso and her guiding group, The Kgato Girl Guides Unit, took part in the Action on Body Confidence programme by holding activities including a swim suit photoshoot to celebrate body diversity.

Stop The Violence Uganda

Faith, Joan and Melda are three young leaders taking part in the Girls as Drivers of Change programme, which brings 22 WAGGGS young leaders and 22 of Save The Children’s young facilitators together to learn about ways to tackle gender based violence.

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ACTION PLAN and BUDGET 2024-26

This three-year Action Plan and Budget sets out how WAGGGS intends to deliver towards the Global Strategy in the first three years of its six-year time frame. It describes the key areas we will focus on and the results we will aim for, and sets a framework for better tracking delivery and impact. It provides a detailed budget of both income and expenditure for 2024 and a more high-level budget for 2025 and 2026.

International Day of the Girl (IDG) 2024

For International Day of the Girl (IDG) starting this year and moving forward, we will not be producing activity packs as part of our celebration. This decision was taken by the World Board, based upon the feedback gathered from Member Organisations in the 2023 WAGGGS Offer Survey.

WAGGGS Global Update

In this update, we start by looking at 2023 – covering some of the highlights of our work to the Movement and to girls and young women. Following this, we will touch on the plans for 2024 and beyond.

_Communication Policy Update__

Communications policy update

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