What is the Guide Program?
Girl Guides Victoria is part of the largest global organisation delivering a non-formal educational program to girls and young women. We provide girls and young women life skills, leadership and citizenship through a wide variety of experiences.
We provide learning environments where our Guides can have input at every level to make choices about what they do, and to take the lead.
This means that every Guide Unit offers a range of different Guiding experiences, as Unit meetings are driven by the Guides in the Unit. Across Victoria, during any one week of the year, Guides could be developing their camp skills, cooking, flying drones, exploring their local natural environment, playing games, learning a new art/craft, planting trees, cleaning up their neighbourhood, experiencing a new culture, singing around a campfire …
Guides contribute by brainstorming various activity ideas, then narrowing them down through decision-making. They choose, plan, and carry out their activities, and evaluate the process afterward. This evaluation can lead to extending the activity, repeating it later, or deciding it was a great one-time experience.
