The Bahamas Girl Guides Association
The Bahamas Girl Guides Association | |||
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Country | The Bahamas | ||
Founded | 1915 | ||
Membership | 2,303 | ||
Affiliation | World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts | ||
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Website https://web.archive.org/web/20090227064425/http://www.bahamasgirlguides.org:80/ | |||
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The Bahamas Girl Guides Association is the national Guiding organization of the Bahamas. It serves 1773 members (as of 2018). Founded in 1915, the girls-only organization became a full member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1975.
Program and ideals
The association is divided in four sections according to age:
- Sunflowers – ages 5 and 6
- Brownies – ages 7 to 10
- Guides – ages 10 to 14
- Rangers – ages 14 to 18
Guide Promise
I promise that I will do my best,
To do my duty to God,
To serve the Queen and my country,
To help other people
and to keep the Guide Law.
Guide Law
- A Guide is loyal and can be trusted
- A Guide is helpful
- A Guide is polite and considerate
- A Guide is friendly and a sister to all Guides
- A Guide is kind to animals and respects all living things
- A Guide is obedient
- A Guide is cheerful and has courage in all difficulties
- A Guide makes good use of her time
- A Guide takes care of her own possessions and those of other people
- A Guide is self-controlled in all she thinks, says and does
See also
External links
- The Bahamas Girl Guides Association website
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Members of the Western Hemisphere Region of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Aruba
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Canada
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Mexico
- Netherlands Antilles
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Trinidad and Tobago
- United States of America
- Venezuela