Global Girl Scouting works to ensure that the Girl Scout Movement promotes and maintains a vital global focus and a global voice for girls. Through Global Girl Scouting, girls come to understand their relationship to the larger world and gain experiences that feed that understanding, even if they never travel beyond their home country. The goal is to grow responsible global citizens who make the world a better place.

Global Girl Scouting also continues the vision of Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Low, whose dream was to spread Girl Scouting around the world — to promote goodwill and friendship among the world’s children, leading them, in turn, to work toward world peace. "Girl Scouting and Girl Guiding," she said, "can be the magic thread which links the youth of the world together."

Read more in our PowerPoint presentation, What Is Global Girl Scouting?


Many Facets of Global Girl Scouting

Since 1925 USA Girl Scouts Overseas has helped ease the transition for families relocating to a new country by offering the familiar traditions and exciting opportunities of Girl Scouting. USAGSO now serves thousands of American girls living overseas and girls attending American or international schools. Read more.

• Girl Scouts of the USA is one of 144 member organizations of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS). WAGGGS provides Girl Scouts with opportunities for international friendship and understanding through many fun and educational activities outside the United States. Read more.
  
  
• The WAGGGS Task Group, made up of eight GSUSA board members, works to maintain a strong relationship between GSUSA and WAGGGS. The WAGGGS Task Group is led by Board Member Debra Nakatomi of Los Angeles, who also serves as GSUSA’s International Commissioner. This position, appointed by the president of GSUSA's board of directors, serves as the president's liaison to WAGGGS and its member associations.
  

Global Opportunities

Through Global Girl Scouting, Girl Scouts can:

• Participate in international travel. By traveling to events in other WAGGGS member countries, girls can learn about other cultures, make new friends, build leadership skills, and share ideas with women and girls from around the globe.



• Visit the four world centers. Located in England, Switzerland, India, and Mexico, these centers, operated by WAGGGS, are wonderful places to learn about the cultures of other countries.



• Participate in World Thinking Day on February 22. On this day, all Girl Guides/Girl Scouts take time to think of each other and show their appreciation for being a part of a world movement.



• Help promote global friendship and understanding at a national level through Girl Scouts of the USA's Juliette Low World Friendship Fund.
Gifts can now be made online through the Commit to a Girl Web site.

Questions?

Check out our FAQs on Global Girl Scouting. For more information, e-mail our Global Girl Scouting office at globalgirlscouting@girlscouts.org or call us at (800) 223-0624 or (212) 852-8556.

"The World Song," from Melinda Caroll Presents Girl Scouts Greatest Hits, Vol. 2, The Wind Beneath Our Wings, Legend Productions, 1998, used with permission of Melinda Caroll. Lyrics available through the Girl Scout Shop.