Campaigns

Advocacy is about using our voices and making ourselves heard on issues that are important to girls and young women. There is a lot you can do to achieve this!

• raise awareness about this years’ issue, poverty and hunger, and how it can be addressed by the government, local schools, health services, communities and other youth organizations
• give a talk and speak out about poverty and hunger in your country, region or elsewhere in the world at your own events or at events organized by other groups. Talk about what change you would like to bring about
• encourage people who are well known in the public, such as celebrities, religious leaders, or educationalists to speak out on your behalf and to support the cause that you have chosen
• network with other groups and join in partnership with organizations that are also concerned with adolescent health

WAGGGS part of record-breaking Stand Up in 2009

A Guinness World Record was shattered when 173,045,325 citizens gathered at over 3,000 events in more than 120 countries from 16 to 18 October 2009 as part of the Stand Up campaign. Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in countries including USA, Sudan, Japan, Our Chalet, Pakistan, UAE, Madagascar, and Thailand took part in a variety of ways. Activities ranged from drawing posters to holding demonstrations.

Join hands with us to Stand Up on 17 to 19 of September

The world was on track to achieve at least the first MDG of halving the number of extreme poor; and was coming close in several others. Now, that hard fought progress is at risk. Ten years after the Millennium Declaration was signed, the economic crisis, which originated within the world’s major financial centres, has spread throughout the global economy. Developing countries, which are the least responsible for the crisis, are suffering the most.

From 20 to 22 of September, 2010, Heads of State will meet again at the United Nations headquarters to review the successes, to learn from the failures, and to discuss the launch of detailed plans on how to ensure the attainment of the MDGs by 2015. It will be a great opportunity to call for collective action and efforts needed to meet the MDGs by the 2015. This year, a special edition of the Stand Up, Take Action Against Poverty campaign has been launched. WAGGGS encourages everyone to join hands and Stand Up on 17-19 of September just before leaders arrive at the UN MDG + 10 Summit in New York.