Other useful resources available

  • World Thinking Day 2010 fundraising ideas sheet. Find out more ideas to organize fundraising events.  
  • Find out more about the five countries where Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting is making a difference and the ways it challenges poverty:

o        Haiti

o      Zimbabwe

o        Sudan

o        Georgia

o        Maldives

  • Factsheet on Millennium Development Goal 1 from the WAGGGS Global Action Theme (GAT) curriculum.
  • The Right to Food: A Window on the World. Cartoon book and activity guide published by WAGGGS and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
  • WAGGGS position statement ‘Making Healthy Food Choices’. The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) is committed to ensuring that girls and young women have access to knowledge which enables them to make healthy food choices. As the voice of girls and young women, WAGGGS had identified making healthy food choices a priority issue on which to take a stand and speak out.
  • Information on World Food Day, from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations website.
  • Stand Up Against Poverty campaign. Join the global movement to end poverty. The campaign takes place around 17 October every year. In many countries around the world thousands of people stand up and take action to fight poverty and hunger.
  • Centenary Celebration pack. The pack is the first of three, one each year, which will provide ideas for different age groups to celebrate the centenary of Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting. This one includes activities and suggestions on how to incorporate the ‘Plant’ theme in the celebrations of 10 April 2010.