Girl Guiding in Sri Lanka … the 1910s …
The Girl Guide and Boy Scout Movements were founded by Lord Robert Baden-Powell (B-P). B-P had first worked with boys while he was in South Africa during the Boer War. He had set up his headquarters in Mafeking, but soon this garrison was under siege. B-P enlisted the help of a few boys to take and carry important messages around town. They were organized into groups or patrols and each patrol had a leader.
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Former LTTE Child Combatants Turn Girl Guides & Boy Scouts
Incredible, yet it is true and deserves our praise and blessings. Out of 198 LTTE child combatants receiving rehabilitation under Bureau of the Commissioner General of Rehabilitation (BCGR), Ministry of Justice & Law Reforms, a total of 40 boys and 38 girls were invested as Boys Scouts and Girl Guides during a recent ceremony while they still continue to receive school education at Ratmalana Hindu College.
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Equally enabled
They may be able to say the first line of the ‘Promise’ but not the second or third lines. But there is someone to guide them through it and once they make their promise they are enrolled as Guides. Thus the differently abled girls are integrated into the normal stream of Girl Guides. There is no separate program for them or a separate syllabus.
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