World Thinking Day.

Empowering girls and young women is at the heart of the global Girl Guide and Girl Scout Movement. In a world where girls and boys do not have the same access to education, work and leadership roles, Girl Guides and Girl Scouts have a vital role to play.

On this years? World Thinking Day, we are focusing on the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 3: gender equality and empowering women. We want and need to raise awareness of the challenges that many girls and young women face and we also want to help them become agents of change.

Many of our Member Organizations are making great progress on this: for example, Girl Scouts of Korea have organized a ?Girls? Day? with a number of campaign activities to empower girls and young women in the country; or in the disadvantaged Kamanga community in Zambia, the Girl Guides have reached out to girls and young women and empowered them to gain life skills such as tailoring and art crafts.

We want to be able to offer opportunities like these to more girls and young women and to continue to change lives. To do this, we need your contributions! World Thinking Day on February 22 is a day to think about and learn from each other but also to raise funds to support continued development of Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting across the world.



Today is World Thiinking Day. The Rainbows, Brownies and Guides were all in church in their uniforms and looking very smart. This years theme is "empowering girls will change our world". We were encouraged to think about how women are suppressed all over the world and the difference it would make if women were treated as equal to men.