From September 2008 – September 2009 Girlguiding UK teamed up with Plan UK as part of their centenary celebrations. Guides and Brownies learnt about Plan’s Because I am a Girl campaign, wrote messages to Gordon Brown calling for education for all girls and raised funds for Plan’s work in Liberia – supporting girls’ access to education.
As part of the Girl Guides' Changing the World project, Plan organised workshops in London, Birmingham, York and Edinburgh on the problems faced by girls around the world. You can see below what the girls did in these workshops.
At these events, we also asked Guiding members to tell Gordon Brown what they think about the fact that an estimated 20 million girls in war zones do not go to school. Click here to read some messages that children sent.
The Guiding units then took part in our Take a photo, make a difference project. Through this exciting initiative, unit members took photographs that represent the issues faced by girls around the world. These have been exhibited locally and can be viewed online. The winning photos were displayed in a national exhibition in October 2009.
What was Changing the World?
Plan's Because I am a Girl campaign, in collaboration with Girlguiding UK: Changing the World, in Girlguiding UK's centenary year worked to:
raise awareness about the injustices against girls in some of the world's poorest countries;
raise funds to rebuild a school for girls in Liberia, Africa.
Through this partnership we hope to collect thousands of pledges of solidarity and raise money to rehabilitate and refurbish a school which was destroyed by the civil war in Liberia.
Find out more about the Girl Guides' work with Because I am a Girl:
