Resources for Leaders
Gecko Guide Leader: A fellow Australian Guide Leader who has put together a terrific site with information and large amount of resources you can use with your girls.
Becky’s (Dragon’s) Website: A Candanian Guide Leader’s site with great resources and ideas.
Becky’s (Dragon’s) Website: A Candanian Guide Leader’s site with great resources and ideas.
Water Wide Game
Learn all about saving water and the importance of clean water with this Wide Game Challenge for Patrols. Collect as many water droplets as you can in your bucket - but watch out for dirty water droplets. Challenges include: Making a sign for your bathroom to remind family members to turn off the tap, Creating a rain gauge, Testing for clean water, Making a water filter, Learning about the Water Cycle and Learning about LifeStraws. Download instructions, templates and girls' patrol sheet below.
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Feeling Remote in Rural Communities
(This section has been written as part of our leader training on contemporary issues and how Guiding is relevant.)
According to Frontier Services, “on average, people living in remote Australia have lower levels of education, earn a lower income and have greater
health risks than those living in major cities. They are more likely to smoke, drink too much and be overweight. It is also much harder for them to access health and other services.” This has also been the view of the Australian Human Rights Commission who state “living in a rural, regional or remote area of Australiamay impact on a person’s enjoyment of the following human rights: the right to education, the right to the highest attainable standard of health; and the right to an adequate standard of living.
What we do at Guides to help?
Guides play an important role in providing rural communities with another community group and belonging for girls living in those communities. Girl Guides gives girls in rural areas a chance to be part of a wider, regional, state, national and international group that breaks down the barrier of distance through group support and fund raising. Girls have the opportunity to participate in camping trips and socialise with girls their own ages.
For very remote girls, there is also Lone Guides, a program that links girls who are unable to attend event he rural groups. Many communicate through modern technology such as email and web conferencing. Read more about Lone Guides.
Suggested Activity
JOTA/JOTI – Jamboree on the Air / Jamboree on the Internet – is an annual activity that allows even rural and remote Girl Guides to communicate with others in the WAGGGS and Scouting Families from across the globe via radio or Internet communications.
According to Frontier Services, “on average, people living in remote Australia have lower levels of education, earn a lower income and have greater
health risks than those living in major cities. They are more likely to smoke, drink too much and be overweight. It is also much harder for them to access health and other services.” This has also been the view of the Australian Human Rights Commission who state “living in a rural, regional or remote area of Australiamay impact on a person’s enjoyment of the following human rights: the right to education, the right to the highest attainable standard of health; and the right to an adequate standard of living.
What we do at Guides to help?
Guides play an important role in providing rural communities with another community group and belonging for girls living in those communities. Girl Guides gives girls in rural areas a chance to be part of a wider, regional, state, national and international group that breaks down the barrier of distance through group support and fund raising. Girls have the opportunity to participate in camping trips and socialise with girls their own ages.
For very remote girls, there is also Lone Guides, a program that links girls who are unable to attend event he rural groups. Many communicate through modern technology such as email and web conferencing. Read more about Lone Guides.
Suggested Activity
JOTA/JOTI – Jamboree on the Air / Jamboree on the Internet – is an annual activity that allows even rural and remote Girl Guides to communicate with others in the WAGGGS and Scouting Families from across the globe via radio or Internet communications.