WORLD THINKING DAY FUND

IMPACT REPORT 2018

 2018 - IMPACT
119 countries took part in World Thinking Day
celebrations, including six Prospect Member
Organisations which joined in the celebrations –
a record number of countries involved in a
single year!

The World Thinking Day hashtags #WTD2018, #WorldThinkingDay

and #ThisIsImpact appeared in 184 million social media timelines;
the highest recorded so far! This was an increase of 1000 % since 2017

The World Thinking Day Activity Pack was translated

into 12 languages and
downloaded 57,790 times

WTD Fund Top words describing the programme:

2017 raised Helpful

£130,000, Educational • Creative
a 10% growth Entertaining
over 2016 Inspiring • Flexible
For the first time, more than 1,000 Girl Guides and Girl Scouts from
100 countries participated in a U-Report poll
and directly gave their feedback for the celebrations
WORLD THINKING DAY FUND IN NUMBERS:
• Over £296,000 raised since 2016
• 115 countries (WAGGGS Member Organisations) contributed to the World Thinking Day Fund in
2017
• £130,000 donated to the World Thinking Day Fund in 2017

How are your donations used?

Donations to the World Thinking Day Fund make an important impact across the work we do with our
Member Organisations.

With 10 million Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 150 countries, there is always a great need for the support of
our members.

Your donations can be found in so many Member Organisation activities. Some are used for printing
curriculums for Leaders, some sponsor members to attend training events and some make up the grants given
to Guides and Girl Scouts to undertake life changing projects in their communities. They help us to develop
exciting, new programmes which allows girls around the world to learn about issue relevant to them.

Your donations also enable us to provide special support to National Associations so that Girl Guiding and Girl
Scouting reaches even more girls around the world and remains relevant and fun.

Just at look at what your individual donations have helped fund:

• 36.82 ETB provided a badge for a member in Ethiopia

• 144 NT$ supplied a hard copy of our World Thinking Day Activity Pack for a Girl Scout unit in Taiwan
• ₹896 provided stationary materials for a training session for 20 girls in India
• $25 enabled a participant to attend an in country event in Ecuador

We want to share with you a few stories of how your donations are enabling life-changing opportunities for
girls to transform their communities and their world.
COMMISSION OF THE STATUS OF WOMEN 2018 (CSW 62)
With support from the World Thinking Day
Fund, WAGGGS provides the opportunity for
young women to be part of a global platform to
advocate change for girls and women.

This year, 11 Young women represented

WAGGGS at the Commission of the Status of
Women in New York, from 12-23 March. The
commission is dedicated to evaluating progress
on gender equality to promote the development
of women and girls worldwide. This year’s theme
was around challenges and opportunities in
achieving gender equality and the empowerment
of rural woman and girls.

Despite the unique challenges girls face, their

voices are often missing from government
decision making and fall through the cracks of
data used to drive policy. The delegation spoke
out to demand a better future for girls.

We caught up with our youngest CSW

delegate Hannah, 19 (UK) to find out how this
empowering journey allowed her to find her voice
and now inspire others to do the same.
 HANNAH, UK
This March, I represented the World Association
of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts at the United
Nations 62nd session on the Commission on the
Status of Women (CSW62) in New York.

As I’ve started to reflect on this incredible

experience, I’ve realised how far I’ve come. I’ve
started to see how being a WAGGGS delegate
has made me a stronger person.

As delegates, we bring the voices of young

women and girls to the table. We advocate for
our rights and we directly lobby and engage
decision makers. During CSW we hosted two events about our body confidence and violence
initiatives. All of us had the chance to give speeches at high-level events.

For me, being a delegate wasn’t an easy journey. I’ve always been a very shy person and I’ve always
struggled with low confidence. When we started our training the weekend before the conference,
I started to doubt myself. I didn’t feel I could advocate on behalf of 10 million young people. The
reality of public speaking suddenly became very real, and I even started to believe I wasn’t clever
enough to do it.

What pulled me through were the other delegates - my incredible guiding sisters. I’ve never felt so
much support and encouragement from people I’d only just met. They all genuinely believed that I
could do it and I will never forget the feeling of warmth I felt as they all helped me to overcome my
fears.

Last month I had another opportunity to advocate for girls rights as an inspirational young leader at
the Commonwealth Youth Forum in London. Without being a WAGGGS delegate at CSW, I would
have never had the confidence to be able to do that on my own.

I’d recommend this experience to all Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. I’ve come away with more
knowledge, confidence and inspiration than I could ever have dreamed of.

Even if you’re shy and unconfident (like I was), I want you to know you CAN do this. Don’t let
anything stop you. Trust me; with your guiding sisters by your side, you can do anything you put your
mind to!
 “Violence against women is a really big issue in Argentina, so it is really
important for us to be well informed and to have tools to do something
about it. All the sessions over the weekend were very well received. They
were dynamic and fun. I’ve learned a lot and I’m looking forward to
working on our own campaign.”

Antonella

STOP THE VIOLENCE

Violence against women and girls is one of the most widespread human rights abuses on the planet,
which it is estimated six out of every ten girls and women globally will be subjected to in their
lifetimes.

With your support, we continue to push our Stop the Violence campaign forward. This important
programme is working towards the prevention and elimination of violence against girls and women,
through education, awareness raising, lobbying, policy and research and community action. Girl
Guides and Girl Scouts around the world are taking action in their schools, local communities, across
their countries and regions.

Your funding has created vital opportunities within the programme, such as training leaders in how to
deliver the Voices Against Violence (VAV) curriculum, supporting Member Organisations with specific
costs in delivering the VAV programme to more girls around the world.

In fact, 87% of Girl Guides reported they are ‘confident’ working with girls in their unit to organise
campaigns to prevent Violence Against Women and Girls.

“It [the Voices against Violence Curriculum] gives us the confidence,

increases our skills and courage . . . I am more comfortable talking about
it in public, and there are a lot of people that are going to support me. I
am okay at speaking loud and clear”
Malaysia, Girl Guides
MEMBERSHIP ORGANISATION
COUNTRY VISITS
WAGGGS purpose is to support our members,
in order to help them provide the best possible
opportunities for girls. You’ve helped us make
some amazing progress over the past year.

Our Membership team of staff and volunteers

have carried out a number of country visits.
This included attending some key Member
Organisations’ events to support the important
work they are currently doing and working
with senior stakeholders of the organisations
to support, strengthen and build on the
development needs, addressing key areas.

This year our team have visited Zambia, Spain,

Bangladesh, France and Mauritania among
others.

Being a member of WAGGGS is to be part of

a strong and growing network committed to
empowering and supporting girls and young
women.
The World Thinking Day Fund has helped develop our training and events
programme in 2018

Conference for Leaders of Girls

April, Philippines

Our Conference for Leaders of Girls was hosted by Girl Scouts of Philippines in
March 2018. These were 15 Member Organisations taking part from the Asia
Pacific region, with a total of 46 participants.

Member Organisations experienced WAGGGS’ new leadership model and

practiced role modelling empowering leadership to inspire their own leadership
journeys.

Latin America Gathering

May, Guatemala

The Gathering was the first WAGGGS event that was delivered entirely in
Spanish. It is the first time we have trained Spanish speaking facilitators to
deliver the WAGGGS leadership model.

Leading for her World - Facilitators Training

July, Sudan

This training project aims to establish a pool of facilitators within the Arab
Region and enable increased volunteer capacity from the region to support
WAGGGS activities at national, regional and global level. So far, we have
received applications from eight Member Organisations, Lebanon, Sudan and
Palestine, to name a few.

Growth Gathering 2018

September, Hungary

This event is open to all Member Organisations with objectives to understand

membership growth, barriers to growth, and to consider the development
needs of the countries attending. Member Organisations will attend sessions
around what growth means globally, regionally, and in the context of individual
countries, as well as good practice around membership growth.
 “World Thinking Day is a time for Guides all around the world to stop
and think about our sisters; especially those living in poverty, forced to
fight in war, or suffering from the impact of a natural disaster.”

Rachel, 13, Girlguiding Barbados

WORLD THINKING DAY

World Thinking Day is our annual celebration of global Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting. Each year
WAGGGS creates a unique and exciting programme designed to be used by all of our 10 million
members across 150 countries.

Is World Thinking Day an important celebration for you? Do you enjoy the World Thinking Day
Activity Pack? Your support makes it all possible.

One of the most important ways in which World Thinking Day Fund donations are used is to enable
our dedicated staff team to continue producing the World Thinking Day programme, making fun,
quality and accessible activities available to everyone, and uniting everyone in celebration of Girl
Guiding and Girl Scouting!

Without your support we wouldn’t be able to do this.

WORLD THINKING DAY FUND
What is the World Thinking Day Fund?

It all started in 1932 when Olave, Lady Baden-Powell wrote a letter to all Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
asking them to spare a penny to support Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting to grow. The idea is simple:
one coin might not seem like a lot, but 10 million coins can grow our Movement and the potential of
Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting around the world.

Thus the World Thinking Day Fund was born as an essential part of annual World Thinking Day
celebrations.

“I shall be thinking of you all, gathered together on February the 22nd,

just as I believe you may also be thinking of me. May I hope that just
as this is the day on which I happened to be born, it may be a day on
which other things are born – ideas, thoughts, and even new hopes
and determinations! All these come flashing into our minds from time
to time, and if they come ALONE, there is not much great strength to
make them last and live! But no Guide or Scout is ‘alone’ on Thinking
Day! We are all held and drawn together by a mighty unseen force
of loving thinking, and millions of prayers will surround us all – You in
Germany – as much as any others anywhere in the whole world. I add
my thoughts and my prayers to the rest, and send them to you all.”

Olave, Lady Baden-Powell, World Chief Guide, 15 February, 1949

I WANT TO SUPPORT THE WORLD THINKING DAY FUND!
All this and so much more is made possible thanks to your help. You can support girls around the
world by raising money for the World Thinking Day Fund, and by spreading the word so that even
more girls get involved.

Remember, every coin given to the World Thinking Day Fund counts!

I am a Girl Guide or Girl Scout

JOIN IT COLLECT IT SEND IT

1. Complete the World 2. Fundraise and collect your 3. Add your donations to the
Thinking Day Fund activity coins/money for donation World Thinking Day Fund
in the Activity Pack via

You can also find more • Your Member Organisation/

fundraising ideas on the National Association
WAGGGS website at bit.ly/ (Contact them for details)
wagggsfundraise
• WAGGGS (Online, Cheque
or Bank Transfer). Details on
back page or online at bit.ly/
WTDFund
MEMBER ORGANISATIONS
As a Member Organisation, you can make a huge difference to the World Thinking Day Fund by
following a few simple steps:

• ENCOURAGE
Encourage your members to do the World Thinking Day Fund activity in the pack
• SHARE
Share the World Thinking Day Fund impact stories and information with your members (included
in the World Thinking Day Comms Pack)
• INFORM
Inform your members how they can donate (via your MO or straight to WAGGGS)
• SEND
Send your World Thinking Day Fund donations to WAGGGS

If you receive any donations from your members for World Thinking Day, please don’t forget to send
them to WAGGGS so that we can add them to the World Thinking Day Fund.

Thank you to all of the Member Organisations and individuals who have already generously donated
to the World Thinking Day Fund 2018.

Your generosity ensures that our programmes are delivered to as many girls and young
as possible. They help us to reach new communities and to develop projects related to leadership, life
skills and advocacy.
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 Thank you
Your support enables us to help create the next generation of future leaders

“World Thinking Day had an impact on my

troop in a sense that I saw them becoming
more responsible and more aware of
their importance and contribution to their
surroundings. Also they learnt that they can
do better if they collaborate.”

Jenny, Australia “Our girls are challenged to learn

and discover new things.”

Michele, Suriname
Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting
changes the life of girls; it
serves as the training ground to
womanhood.”

Eralda, Albania
“Guiding has taught my girls to be
responsible leaders and to look for
ways to help”

“Through Guiding, the girls have had new Margie, U.S.A

experiences, tried new things, become
more aware of the world around them, the
environment and other people, and have a
greater appreciation of what they have.”

Adele, Sangam World Centre, India

“Girls are involved in the community,

with each other and their IMPACT is felt
locally, Nationally (Service Projects) and
Internationally (World Friendship Fund).”
(Charity Number 1159255)
Michelle, Canada
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