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Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA), commonly referred to as Girl Scouts, is a youth organization for girls in the United States and American girls living abroad. [2] It was founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912, a year after she had met Robert Baden-Powell , the founder of Scouting [ 3 ] (formally Boy Scouts).
Girl Guides (known as Girl Scouts in the United States and some other countries) is a worldwide movement, originally and largely still designed for girls and women only. The movement began in 1909, when girls requested to join the then-grassroots Boy Scout Movement .
A Girl Guide or Girl Scout is a member of a section of some Guiding organisations who is between the ages of 10 and 14. Age limits are different in each organisation. Robert Baden-Powell chose to name his organization for girls "the Girl Guides". In the United States and several East Asian countries the term "Girl Scout" is used instead.
Girl Scouts of North East Ohio (GSNEO) serves nearly 30,000 girls and has 14,000 adult volunteers. GSNEO was formed in 2007 by the merger of five different councils: Erie Shores, Great Trail, Lake Erie, Lake to River, and Western Reserve. Its history dates back to 1912 when the first known girl scout troop in the area was started. Service Centers:
Scouts' Day: Brazil: 24 April: St. George's Day: Czech Republic: Celebrated on April 24 because April 23 is the feast of Czech national saint Adalbert of Prague: 18 May: Scouts' Day: Turkiye: Turkiye Scouts who were martyred in Gallipoli in 1915 during the First World War are commemorated. 19 May: Scouts' Day: Croatia: first training in 1950 22 ...
The first Girl Scout cookies were sold by the Mistletoe Troop in Muskogee, Oklahoma in 1917 — the scouts baked cookies and sold them in a high school cafeteria as a service project, according to ...
The program of the Girl Scouts of the USA is administered through local councils. Each council covers a geographic area of the United States , that may vary in size from a single U.S. county to multiple U.S. states .
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