Ideas from around the world

Asociación Guías Argentinas brings Guiding to the homes of their members through #GuidismoEnCasa! Check out their Facebook page for fun weekly activities such as virtual games, trivia, and meeting other Guides online.

Vorarlberger Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen (The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of Austria) are helping members stay active and engaged by releasing daily #StayAtHome challenges via their Facebook page.

Gidsen Vlaanderen (SGV) has developed tips on how to combat boredom while staying at home. They encouraged Girl Guides and Scouts to play together online using social media, have fun with bundles of games, read and participate in a Sketch-up programme.

O'Higgins District of the Association of Guides and Scouts of Chile has created the set of activities #JuntosEnCasa, which has various activities and challenges for the young members to stay active and carry out from their homes.

Are you bored? The Green Girl Scouts have come up with a guide of 17 things you can do alone or with friends at a distance.

The Scouts et Guides de France (SGDF) distributes a newsletter called “La Malle d’Activités” twice a week to parents with local initiatives. Their Leaders receive a newsletter called “Scoutisme à distance” once a week. They also have a Volunteers Engagement Charter.

Parents newsletters: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 / Leaders newsletters: 1 | 2 | 3

The Ghana Girl Guides are going virtual with #GGGAcentonline! Keep one eye on their Facebook page to stay up to date with their online centenary celebrations.

# STUÐKVÍ

Don't get bored even though the community is in quarantine. Deal with the situation with cheerfulness and curiosity, by solving fun scouting tasks! Every day, the Icelandic Boy and Girl Scout Association share one project that anyone can do at home.

CGI has released a time capsule challenge and a set of tips about hosting an online meeting.

Programme activities you can do while staying at home has been put online by the Hebrew Scouts Movement in Israel. The name of the page is “Scouts for All (situations)” = “צופים לכל (מצב)”. They also have virtual programme guidelines for Leaders of Scouts with Special Needs and a collection of videos and activities containing ideas for Scouting from Home on their website.

Association Des Guides du Liban has formed a virtual Choir and moved hearts around the world with their powerful song, "I am 1 Voice".

The Malta Girl Guides has launched a challenge that will see kids and people of all ages, who are currently staying at home, participating in different activities to help beat the boredom of staying indoors during these difficult times. The Malta Girl Guides Quarantine Challenge, or better yet,  #mggquarantinechallenge, this challenge consists of a challenge launched every 2 days via Facebook.

The Scouts and Guides of Montenegro came up to an idea to organise a competition - Scout League Online. Find out more about the competition and activities here. They also update their YouTube channel with regular material.

Keep an eye on their Facebook, Instagram and YouTube channel to see their upcoming six-week activity supported by UNICEF Montenegro.

Scouting Nederland has a website full of adventures you can do at home! Check out their website to explore a safari in your own home, put your bedroom "underwater", discover the power of the sun and other fun activities.

Scouts and Guides from Poland have come up with amazing initiatives to bring Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting online:

• #ZdalneHARCE: a 5-week programme which includes a set of activities and tasks that were prepared to support unit and patrol leaders in continuing their work remotely.
• #razemalezdalnie (#togetherbutremotely) via their Facebook page: activities to reach and inspire their members to continue Guiding/Scouting in their own homes.
• and the HarcApp Scout app which features games, scouts singers, a book of recipes and a scout dictionary in several languages. Available on Android and IOS.

The Association has developed a website to understand how their members are coping. It consists of the psychological test DASS. The results can help users recognise if they need to seek professional help. The Association also aims to use it as a tool to consider mental health in planning their future activities. The content was prepared by a volunteer with a background on psychology, and was proof-read by their Chief Scout who is a medical doctor and an assistant professor at the Faculty of Medicine.

Sri Lanka Girl Guides Association has launched their 14-Day Quarantine Challenge with different themes to explore each day!

Participants of the YESS Girls movement in Tanzania have been doing different online campaigns on Facebook to stay connected to the other Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. They use their Facebook page to share knowledge and also get other Girl Guides and Girl Scouts to share their ideas and experiences.

The Scouting and Guiding Federation of Turkey is sharing its activities during COVID-19 with a Prezi presentation. In addition to the community work TIF's members are doing, here you will also find daily training held by their Chief Scout and an interview of their President of Technical Committee discussing how scouting develops a sense of responsibility and leadership in children.

GSUSA has developed self-guided, free activities to keep your girl, your troop, and your community connected. Activities to complete at home.

In honour of the Olympics and quarantine lifestyle, the Girl Scouts of Citrus Orlando Florida have created the Health Olympian Spring Challenge! The Health Olympian challenge is an engaging health & wellness activity for Girl Scouts of all levels, that they can do in their own home.

Welthungerhilfe and WASH United have partnered with an expert from the Institute for Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin in producing a comic strip that provides young people between the ages of 10 and 14 with information about coronavirus and other preventative hygiene measures. This generic comic strip, which can be used all over the world, is available in more than 25 languages and can be downloaded by visiting this page.