Botswana Girl Guides Association

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Name Botswana Girl Guides Association
Country Botswana
Founded 1924
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The Botswana Girl Guides Association is the national Guiding organisation of Botswana. It serves 2,432 members (as of 2003). Founded in 1924, the girls-only organisation became a full member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1969.

[edit] Program

The purpose of the association is "to develop the girls' potential in order to make a responsible citizen in any community."[1] The association runs a two year course on home economics for school dropouts on a national basis mainly for girls. The participants get a certificate at the end of the second year in either sewing or catering. This project was started in 1981 and some of the graduates are working in local hotels.

[edit] Sources

  1. ^ http://www.un.org/africa/osaa/ngodirectory/dest/countries/Botswana.htm

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Members of the Africa Region of WAGGGS

Full members: Benin | Botswana | Burkina Faso | Central African Republic | Côte d'Ivoire | The Gambia | Ghana | Kenya | Lesotho | Liberia | Madagascar | Mauritius | Namibia | Nigeria | Rwanda | Senegal | Sierra Leone | South Africa | Tanzania | Togo | Uganda | Zambia | Zimbabwe
Associate members: Burundi | Cameroon | Chad | Republic of the Congo | Guinea | Malawi | Swaziland
Countries working towards WAGGGS: Democratic Republic of Congo | Niger


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