Georgetown: Guyanese Girl Guides elected to new office-bearing status for the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) Western Hemisphere Region
Saudia Edghill, Young Leader of the Guyana Girl Guides Association and UG student, has been selected by WAGGGS as the International Day of the Girl Ambassador for Guyana, while Schemel Patrick, Guyana Girl Guides Association PRO and Executive officer was elected to the WAGGGS Western Hemisphere Committee. These new official roles were conferred at the 13th Western Hemisphere Regional Conference in Cuernavaca, Mexico in July.
Earliest on the Agenda of these new executives is the upcoming second celebration of the International Day of the Girl, Friday 11 October launched a year ago by the United Nations. The theme for this year’s celebrations is putting “Girls in the lead”. Ms Edghill will champion the day on behalf of WAGGGS and the campaign in Guyana and the rest of the Caribbean. She will also collaborate with WAGGGS throughout the year to continue to support Guyanese Girls in this ‘Lead’ campaign. She will participate in the year long promotion of IDG activities, both locally and internationally; work with the Guyana Girl Guides Association on the conception and implementation of an action project for the year; and mobilize other young women from the Caribbean region to take action.
Ms Patrick, the youngest of six women members now on the WAGGGS Western Hemisphere Committee, while playing a lead role in the Association’s plans for the International Day of the Girl, will also be fully involved in the execution of the Western Hemisphere’s plans for the next three years.
This region is composed of 36 countries situated in North America, Latin America and the Caribbean. Its main function is to promote and expand Girl Guiding/Girl Scouting within the Western Hemisphere and develop plans for assisting National Organizations to provide opportunities for training and sharing concerns, experiences and human resources.
Prior to the Mexico Summit, both Ms. Edghill and Ms. Patrick have represented the Guyana Girl Guides Association at International and other Events in South Africa, the Bahamas and Trinidad and Tobago.
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