Ghana Girl Guides Association

We are a member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, WAGGGS. WAGGGS is the world’s largest voluntary movement for girls and young women. Currently, there are more than 10 million girl guides from 150 countries across the world.

We are open to all girls, whatever their religion, ethnic group, background, or challenge. This instills a strong spirit of tolerance and respect for others in the girls. We belong to the largest voluntary Movement dedicated to girls and young women in the world.

We represent 190,000+ girls and young women across Ghana. For over 100 years, Girl Guiding has transformed the lives of girls and young women across the country, supporting and empowering them to achieve their fullest potential and to become responsible citizens of the world.

Our strengths lie in innovative non-formal education programs, leadership development, advocacy work, and community action, empowering girls and young women to develop the skills and confidence needed to make positive changes in their lives, their communities and country, and the world.

There are lots of ways you can get involved with the Ghana Girl Guides Association’s work, whether you want to become a partner, join Girl Guiding, volunteer or support us as a donor.

1. Pioneering Projects (for scouts and guides): the National Training Centre is also the Kusafiri World Centre is one of the only green spaces in the capital. Pioneering is deeply seated in Scouting tradition and involves the process of designing and constructing equipment for practical uses from bridges to swings. Pioneering is often used to build camp gateways as well as functional objects such as tables and benches. For the Kusafiri World Centre, the MO would want to build 5 tree houses, start a back yard garden, and develop bio digestor and waste separation house. Interested volunteers with the skills sets to initiate these pioneering projects will be exciting.
2. Educational Centre Support: the MO has an educational day care centre which is situated at the National Headquarters. The care day caters for toddlers to 3-year-olds whose parents are government workers at the ministries. It operates from 8 am – 5 pm daily (Saturdays and Sundays not included). It will be prudent to introduce another language of instruction to the children during their formative stages. For this activity, the volunteer will last 1 year.
3. Global Programs- (Free Being Me/ Rosie’s World/Plastic Tide Turners Campaign/ Stop the Violence/ Surf Smart). The MO run all the above programs with our in-school and community units as part girl guiding activities. All these projects come with activity packs to aid volunteers and adult leaders who run them.

4. Crafts and Skill Training: This activity involves teaching basic crafts and skills that can equip the girls and young women for life. Most of these skills and crafts are age tailored and appropriate. On the plus side the creativity and innovative nature of the volunteer is paramount.
5. Local Initiative and Projects (Financial Literacy and Women Empowerment/ Advocacy on the Removal Luxury Taxes on Sanitary Product): the MO has two flagship advocacy programs. Our advocacy for the removal of luxury taxes on the sanitary products is aimed at reducing the burden of girls and young women especially in hard-to-reach areas who must sometimes exchange sex for money to be able to afford sanitary product. The financial literacy and female empowerment are a community project based in our community units in the Upper East Region for women groups.