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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 .
The Girl Scouts of America was established in Des Moines, Iowa by Clara A. Lisetor-Lane in 1910. [5] In 1911, the GSA and the Girl Guides (Spokane, Washington) planned to merge with the Camp Fire Girls to form the Girl Pioneers of America, [6] but relationships fractured and the merger failed. [5]
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).
In 1909, a number of Girl Scouts attended the Boy Scout Rally in Crystal Palace Park [24] The girls told Robert Baden Powell that they wanted 'to do the same thing as the boys'. [25] Guiding was introduced to respond to the demand. [21] In 1910 Robert Baden-Powell formed the Girl Guides and asked his sister Agnes to look after the Girl Guides ...
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.
The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts recognizes at most one Guiding organization per country. Some countries have several organizations combined as a federation, with different component groups divided on the basis of religions (France, Denmark), ethnic identification (Israel) or language (Belgium).
The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS / w æ ɡ z /) is a global association supporting the female-oriented and female-only Guiding and Scouting organizations in 153 countries. Established in 1928 in Parád , Hungary , the organization now has its headquarters in London , United Kingdom .
Another modern breakaway group is the Christian American Heritage Girls, formed in 1995 in response to the perceived growing liberalism in the Girl Scouts of the USA. [5] In Canada and to some extent in the United States, there is a Traditional Scouting movement, seeking to take Scouting back to the way it was in Baden-Powell's days.