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USA Girl Scouts Overseas Paris (USAGSO-PARIS) |
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 Girl Scouts of the USA supports American girls living abroad through their USA Girl Scouts Overseas program. Over 18,000 members are currently participating in USA Girl Scouts Overseas in 90 countries around the world. USAGSO members enjoy the same excitement, fun and adventure in Girl Scouting as their stateside Girl Scout sisters.
Since 1949, Paris has hosted one of these overseas locations, and over the years has provided the USA Girl Scout program to more than 5000 girls in the American community living in the Paris region. This year we serve over 350 girls from kindergarten through 12th grade, and have more than 100 adult volunteers. In 2010, USAGSO-PARIS, is recognized as the largest of the 121 Overseas Committees in the world served by New York.
It's always exciting to have the chance to bring girls together and encourage them to do things they may have never tried before, to assist them as they develop qualities that will serve them all their lives, like leadership, strong values, social conscience, and conviction about their own potential and self-worth.
For many girls in the Paris Neighborhood, the ‘City of Lights’ is home, but for others it is simply a place to which they and their family have moved for a period of time. USAGSO-PARIS adult volunteers connect girls who may feel adrift because of relocation and provide a ‘slice of American life’ for others. Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place.
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GS Newsflash
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GS Forever Green in Paris |
The poorest people in the world are the ones who will most feel the effects of environmental degradation and climate change. Ensuring environmental sustainability is a critical foundation for ending this poverty. Girls and young women of all ages around the world are also differently and disproportionately affected by the consequences of environmental degradation and climate change.
Part One of our GS Forever Green in Paris Rain Garden Project and theme for 2012 is Millennium Development Goal 7: “we can save our planet”. The aim is to raise awareness of the environment and the impacts our lifestyles and choices have on it, so together we can speak out and take action to save our planet.
Join us on February 4th at UNESCO from 3-6pm to participate in FUN activities which will prepare us for the planting of our Rain Garden in May. Come meet our special UNESCO Japanese woman guest, Jun Morohashi, who will share her summer experience of work with children that had been affected by the tsunami and Fukushima nuclear meltdown.
This event is open to children in 4th through 12th grade and adults. You MUST register by January 22nd 2012; send an email to We Can Save Our Planet
Part Two of our GS Forever Green in Paris Rain Garden Project is the planting activity which will take place in May and is open to children grades K-12 and adults. The location and date are to be confirmed. More details to follow so please check back often.
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The best thing about being a Girl Scout is: That you can do fun activities and earn all different kinds of badges if you want. You can even make your own! When you are done just tell your leader and she will order the badge that goes with the activity you were doing... I also enjoyed is doing SWAPS (you make these little creative pins and then at camp out you trade them with anybody you like).
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