Kuwait Girl Guides Association
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| Image:Kuwait Girl Guides Association logo.png Kuwait Girl Guides Assocation |
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| Name | Kuwait Girl Guides Association |
| Country | Kuwait |
| Founded | 1957 |
| Membership | 9715 |
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The Kuwait Girl Guides Association (KGGA) is the national Guiding organization of Kuwait. The association has 9,715 members (as of 2003). Founded in 1957, the girls-only organization became a full member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) in 1966.
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[edit] Program
Girls are organised into groups by age, as in other Guiding and Scouting organisations. Brownies are between age 7 and 11. Girl Guides are between age 12 and 16. Senior Girl Guides are between age 17 and 23.
[edit] Promise and Law
The Brownie promise is:
- I promise to do my best in carrying out my duty towards God and my country, and in helping people under all circumstances, especially those at home.
The Brownie law is:
- The Brownie must obey those who are older, must be resolute, must not yield to her whims, must take the Brownie Promise.
The Girl Guide promise is:
- I promise upon my honour to do my best,
- in doing my duty towards God and my country;
- in helping people under all circumstances;
- in following the Law of the Girl Guides.
The Girl Guide law is:
- The honour of the Girl Guides is faith and confidence.
- The Girl Guide is sincere towards her country, her parents, her seniors and her juniors.
- The Girl Guide should be useful to herself and to others.
- The Girl Guide is the friend to all and sister to every other Girl Guide.
- The Girl Guide is of good character.
- The Girl Guide is kind to animals.
- The Girl Guide sincerely obeys her parents, the head of her division and the leaders of her group.
- The Girl Guide smiles in the face of trouble and faces it with patience and steadfastness.
- The Girl Guide is thrifty.
- The Girl Guide is pure-hearted, decent in word and generous in deed.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- USA Girl Scouts - Kuwait. Retrieved on 2006-11-28.
| Members of the Arab Region of WAGGGS |
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Full members: Bahrain | Egypt | Jordan | Kuwait | Lebanon | Libya | Oman | Qatar | Sudan | Tunisia | United Arab Emirates | Yemen |
