World Thinking Day
2024: “Our World, Our Thriving Future: The
Environment and Global Poverty”
Celebrated since 1926, World Thinking Day is a day
of international friendship. It is an opportunity to
connect with our global sisterhood, speak out on issues
that affect girls and young women, and support 10 million Girl
Guides and Girl Scouts in 152 countries through contributions
to the World Thinking Day Fund.
On International
Day of the Girl 2020, WAGGGS (the World Association of Girl
Guides and Girl Scouts) asked Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
under 18 from 100 countries what issues they were most
concerned about and what they wanted to change about the
world. From this data, WAGGGS learned that the number one
worry is the environment. And so, the World Thinking Day theme
from 2022-2024 is “Our World, Our Thriving Future”.
This year’s WTD starts a three-year journey for Girl
Guides and Girl Scouts to become environmentally conscious
leaders. Each year we will build on this environmental theme
and explore the links between the environment and other global
concerns.
2022: OUR WORLD, OUR EQUAL FUTURE; THE
ENVIRONMENT AND GENDER EQUALITY
Climate change and
environmental degradation are threatening our world and our
future. To earn your World Thinking Day award, you will
explore how girls and women are disproportionately affected by
climate change, and make the Girl Scout Tree Promise (https://www.girlscouts.org/treepromise)
2023: OUR WORLD OUR PEACEFUL FUTURE; THE ENVIRONMENT, PEACE
AND SECURITY 2024: OUR WORLD, OUR THRIVING FUTURE: THE
ENVIRONMENT AND GLOBAL
POVERTY 2024 World
Thinking Day award activities can be downloaded from the GSUSA
page. Leaders can also download the Activity Guides from the
Resources section of the Volunteer Toolkit (VTK).
Download these additional resources to help you plan your
World Thinking Day gathering: World Thinking Day Ceremonies
(link to docx.)
WAGGGS 2024 World Thinking Day Activity
Pack (link to pdf).
What Do We Do On World
Thinking Day?
● Be one in ten million as you celebrate
World Thinking Day with your family, troop, or Service Unit -
and the world! Your celebration could be a special ceremony,
an in-person or virtual event, or a Take Action Project that
helps the environment. Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta has
resources to help you! Contact Global Volunteer Margaret
Paschal for more information or to request electronic copies
of our resource and activity guides:
paschalmargaret@gmail.com.
● Be inspired by the history
and impact of our global Movement! Do you know about Lord and
Lady Baden-Powell? The World Association of Girl Guides and
Girl Scouts? How Juliette Gordon Low helped make Guiding and
Girl Scouting a Global Movement? Do you know how the Girl
Guides helped win World War II? How do Girl Scouts in our own
council make a difference in the world through their Gold
Award projects? There’s so much to be inspired by!
●
Connect with the worldwide sisterhood of Girl Guiding and Girl
Scouting (connect means to join, link, or fasten together;
unite or bind.) One of the ways WAGGGS helps Girl Scouts and
Guides stay connected is through social media: their website,
Facebook page, Blog, Instagram, and Twitter! Start here: www.wagggs.org. Many of
WAGGGS’ Member Organizations (countries) have Websites or
Facebook pages; use your favorite search engine and search for
“Girl Guides [name of country]” Another way we stay connected
with our sister Guides and Girl Scouts in through the World
Centres: https://www.wagggs.org/en/our-world/world-centres/.
● Take action and speak out on issues we most care about by
earning the World Thinking Day Award. To learn the steps
needed, visit https://www.girlscouts.org/en/for-girls/think-globally/world-thinking-day.html
The Activity Guides are also directly accessible to all troop
leaders in the Volunteer Tool Kit. There are additional World
Thinking Day activities for large or small groups in the
Global Action Days Toolkit, found in the Resources. section of
the Volunteer Toolkit.
● Make a difference by
contributing to the World Thinking Day Fund. A tradition since
1932, the Fund helps support WAGGGS projects around the world.
Donations are used wherever the need is greatest in our global
Movement.
New to Girl Scouting? New to World
Thinking Day? Not sure how to get started? Request a copy of
our “Countdown to World Thinking Day” activity guide from
paschalmargaret@gmail.com.
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