Pictures and Stories 2007

Pictures and Stories of how World Thinking Day 2007 was celebrated around the globe.

Celebrations in Zambia

Girl Guides in Lusaka, Zambia, celebrated World Thinking Day dancing.

World Thinking Day in Kuwait

Full of pennies

The 1^st Perth Andover Sparks Unit celebrated World Thinking Day with a funny and interesting activity. They took their smallest member and outline her figure onto two pieces of Bristol board.

During February, the girls brought in lots and lots of pennies and taped them onto the outline until it was completely full. The group managed to collect $15 for WAGGGS in this activity.

Gratitude is a world attitude

The fourth-grade Troop 15162 of Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council, US, put together the campaign ‘Gratitude is a world attitude’ for Thinking Day to collect pennies for thoughts of gratitude. Their efforts helped to collect US$ 127,03 for WAGGGGS.

They came up with some guidelines for their own donations and those of their family and friends. For example:

If you wear clothes you want to wear, be thankful and donate 5 pennies

If you have clean running water, be thankful and donate 25 pennies

If you have public transportation, be thankful and donate 7 pennies

The girls also researched world issues pertaining to each item and learned how many children are without food or education in our world.

Troop leader Michelle Walker says: “This awareness has humbled them in many ways. This was truly a unique learning opportunity for us as leaders, our Girl Scouts and our community.”

International celebration in Jersey City, US

The Girl Scout Council of Greater Essex and Houdson Counties (GSCGEHC), US, held an event on 17 February at Newport Mall in Jersey City to celebrate World Thinking Day.

From Japan, Australia and Spain to the Dominican Republic and Portugal, nearly a dozen countries were represented through World Thinking Day displays and activities prepared by Girl Scout troops. The Jersey City Troop 2826 exhibited its Girl Unity quilt comprised of cloth squares submitted by troops around the world.

The event was an opportunity for local girls to learn about and celebrate the international sisterhood of Girl Scouting and also an unofficial kick off to the celebration of the Girl Scouts 95^th anniversary.

Pennsylvania, USA

More than 250 Girl Scouts attended the annual celebration of World Thinking Day in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, USA, on February 23.

Cadette troup 540 hosted the event and collected $560.82 from the activities.

The celebrations took place at the Haine Middle School auditorium. Troops set up booths representing different countries and researched topics such as geography, religions, foods or languages.

You can download a copy of the article published on the ‘Sunday Cranberry eagle’, Sunday, March 4, 2007 from the resources section.

Sri Lanka

Girl Guides and Girl Scouts participated in different activities on World Thinking Day in Sri Lanka.

You can download the article published on the ‘Funday Times’, March 11 from the resources section of this website and have a look at the great pictures.

The Sri Lanka Girl Guides Association is celebrating its 90^th anniversary this year.

Philippines

We are from a very small School from Laguna in the Philippines and we are proud to tell you that we actively celebrated our Thinking Day last 22 February 2007 in our School Grounds.

It was started as a very simple activity of “Take the Lead”, where we invited a community leader to our place and interviewed her about her accomplishments being a leader.

Another activity we had was “Speak Out” from the Star Scout Group. They shared their experiences and had a simple discussion on the essentials of Thinking Day.

Songs, Dances and cheers happened and the girls were very happy for that activity. They really want to have more scouting activities.

Almost 100 Stars and Junior members participated in our memorable Thinking Day! We collected a little amount of money for the World Fund and submitted it to our Council. Wishing all the best for the WAGGGS.

More power to the Scouting Movement!

From: Filomena L. Tecson
Institutional Head of Diezmo Elementary. School Cabuyao, Laguna, Philipines

Kenya

Kenya Girl Guides celebrated World Thinking Day on 22 February 2007 with a ceremony at the Baden-Powell’s grave in Nyeri, Kenya.

Lebanon

Every year the international team of the Lebanese Girl Guides Association prepares something special to celebrate World Thinking day. Following this year’s theme, we made a big game and 200 leaders and commissioners enjoyed playing.

The girls were divided into 14 groups, each one represented by one color. Each group had to pass by all the 7 stages of the game such as leadership games, guides games, logic games.... and in one of the stages, our leaders had the chance to open new international frontiers by sending to Guides from all over the world postcards expressing their wishes for Thinking Day, sharing their addresses and specially, enjoying new friendships.

Like every Thinking Day celebration, we did not forget to collect the "sou mondial", in fact, the posters that you made available on the website were very useful. They really helped us in collection of the amount that will be sent by my Association to WAGGGS, hoping it will help you raise 450,000 sterling so girls worldwide can...

At the end of the celebration, 70 colored balloons (representing our 70 years in WAGGGS), were left in the sky, expressing messages of peace and friendship from the Lebanese Girl Guides Association to the whole world!

Roula Hanna Choucair
International Commissoner
Lebanese Girl Guides Association

Georgia, USA

Our troop had a great time hosting the 2007 Thinking Day Celebration for Soaring Spirits Service Unit of the Girl Scout Council of Northwest Georgia!

Twenty-three different troops of all ages participated by representing different WAGGGS nations. Each troop sponsored a booth for their selected WAGGGS nation, where the girls could experience a variety of hands-on, multi-cultural activities.

We enjoyed many different foods, games, music, crafts, and making new friends within our service unit. The girls went around to all the booths finding answers to a "Global Safari Scavenger Hunt". Participants received goody bags, a Thinking Day patch, and a certificate. Girls had passports that were stamped by each country and also exchanged swaps.

At the event, we also facilitated a group service project: the assembly of 200 paper doll kits for a local childrens’ hospital. Our troop had fun learning all about the WAGGGS nation we selected to study: Kenya! At the end of the day, all the "nations" gathered in a huge World Friendship Circle. We loved Thinking Day!!!

Qatar

I am Shakil Ahmed Kakvi, District Secretary of Bharat Scouts and Guides and Scout in charge of MES Indian School, Qatar Scouts and Guides Unit.

We are celebrating in Doha-Qatar. We celebrated on World Thinking Day InshAllah.