Eswatini Girl Guides Association Explained

Eswatini Girl Guides Association[1]
Headquarters:Manzini
Country:Eswatini
F-Date:1924
Members:3,450
Affiliation:World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts

The Eswatini Girl Guides Association (formerly The Swaziland Girl Guides Association) is the national Guiding organization of Eswatini (Swaziland). It serves 3,450 members (as of 2017) (1,010 members in 2003, 1,836 in 1972[2]). It was founded in 1924 as a girls-only organization. World Chief Guide Olave Baden Powell visited in 1950 it became a Branch Association of The Guide Association in the UK. It became a self-governing body in 1969 when it became an associate member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1969.[3]

The organization merged with "The Wayfareres" a similar organization.[3]

There are three youth sections. Blue Jays were the original, followed by the Ranger section in 1963, and Cadets in 1968,[3] and was renamed following the renaming of the country in 2018.

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  1. . Eswatini Girl Guides Association . Eswatini Girl Guides Association . 7 August 2020.
  2. News: 1 November 2019 . Newspapers.com . . . Teach Swaziland girls in Guide program. 16 June 1972 . 29 .
  3. Web site: 2019 . . 1 November 2019 . live . The Swaziland Girl Guides Association . https://web.archive.org/web/20190213035901/http://www.wagggs.org/en/our-world/africa/member-organisations/swaziland/ . 13 February 2019.