News
| 3 July 2008 | Countdown to the World Conference Girl Guides Association of South Africa (GGASA), young volunteers and WAGGGS staff are getting everything ready for the 33rd World Conference in Johannesburg, which will start Sunday 6 July and finish on 11 July. Consequently, the Birchwood Hotel is bursting with activity! |
| 15 October 2007 | New WAGGGS members' area WAGGGS has launched a new members-only area of the website, which provides Member Organizations and other groups within WAGGGS with their own place to exchange information, share ideas and offer support. The new area is available through a login procedure from the right hand top corner of the website. |
| 23 May 2007 | New Regional Committee for the Arab Region The 18th Arab Regional Conference has elected the new Committee for the next three years. Essia Fathallah, from Tunis, has been elected as the new Chairman. |
| 6 March 2007 | Result of our Young Women Needs Survey Sixty-one young women from five Arab countries participated in the survey about the needs of Young Women in the region. |
| 22 February 2007 | Chairman’s message on World Thinking Day World Thinking Day is a chance for Girl Guides and Girl Scouts to think about their peers in other parts of the world. This year’s theme is 'Discover your Potential by taking the lead, growing friendships, and speaking out' and we want you to help us raise £450,000. Read the message from our Chairman, Elspeth Henderson. |
| 27 December 2006 | The Arabic translation of the WAGGGS Repositioning Survey The WAGGGS Repositioning Survey has been translated into Arabic to enable more members of the Arab Region to participate and have their say. |
| 1 December 2006 | WAGGGS launches new HIV and AIDS project with UNAIDS WAGGGS has secured funding from UNAIDS for a new groundbreaking project to tackle HIV and AIDS worldwide. It will start in January 2007. |
| 3 November 2006 | Participate in a new survey for young women Does Guiding meet your needs? What kind of trainings and programmes would you like to have? These are just some of the questions in a new survey for young women that the Arab Region is conducting. Aimed at 18 to 30 year olds, the results of this survey will contribute towards the region’s future planning. You can download the questionnaire from this website. |
| 27 October 2006 | Guides of the Sultanate of Oman participated in JOTA/JOTI The National Organization for Guides and Scouts in the Sultanate of Oman participated in the Jamboree on the air (JOTA) and the Jamboree on the Internet (JOTI) on the 20 and 21 October. They communicated with thousands of Guides and Scouts all over the world using short wave radio signals and the Internet. |
| 14 September 2006 | New theme for World Thinking Day 2007 Getting ready for World Thinking Day 2007? We are! We already have the theme for next year’s event which is “discover your potential”. We want Girl Guides and Girl Scouts around the world to discover their potential by taking the lead, growing friendship and speaking out. |
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