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Program Ideas: AGP Element — People State Adviser News Upcoming Event & Training Dates The Waratah is published by Girl Guides NSW & ACT and welcomes contributions from its Members. CONTENTS FOREWORD FROM THE STATE TEAM 1 The office of Girl Guides NSW & ACT can be found at: FROM GUIDE HOUSE 2 Guide House CHIEF COMMISSIONER SAYS 2 Level 2, 55 Holt Street DISTRICT DYNAMICS 3 Surry Hills NSW 2010 BOARD ELECTIONS 3 Phone: (02) 8396 5200 AUSTRALIAN GIRL GUIDE PROMISE — AUSLAN 4 Fax: (02) 9211 5911 email: [email protected] PROGRAM ACTIVITIES: AGP ELEMENT PEOPLE 5–8 web: www.girlguides-nswact.org.au CENTENARY JOURNEY 9 Postal address: CONGRATULATIONS 9 PO Box 950 ADVISER AND CONSULTANT NEWS 10–11 Strawberry Hills NSW 2012 FROM THE ARCHIVES... 12 Retail Department: COMING SOON: THE GREAT GUIDE SLEEPOVER 12 Unit 14, 77–79 Bourke Road ABBEY TOSOUNIDIS SHARES HER SANGAM EXPERIENCE 12 Alexandria NSW 2015 WHAT AN AWESOME ADVENTURE — AITG 2013 13 Phone: (02) 9317 4200 Fax: (02) 9669 6257 UPCOMING TRAINING DATES Retail postal address: PO Box 6124 Training Location Event Date Closing Date Alexandria NSW 2015 DL Update Coffs Harbour June 01 May 11 Leadership Qualification ACT June 01 May 11 We love hearing what our Members Learning Partners Connect Menai June 01 May 11 are up to, so please send your news to Training PLs Coffs Harbour June 01 May 11 [email protected]. Behavioural Management Menai June 02 May 11 Thank you for the photos and articles that are Patrol System Actioned Menai June 02 May 11 sent through each month. Program Explored Coffs Harbour June 02 May 11 Deadlines FD O6 Indoor Camping Austral June 15 May 24 FD O7 Outdoor Camping Austral June 15 May 24 If you would like to be published in the June 2013 edition of The Waratah, please send your Leadership Qualification Glengarry June 15 May 24 contribution to us no later than 10 May. Program Explored Singleton June 15 May 24 Ceremonies Singleton June 16 May 24 If you are interested in advertising in The Ceremonies + Flag Singleton June 16 May 24 Waratah, please contact Marita Dortins: Flag Singleton June 16 May 24 [email protected]. Catering July 20 June 28 Girl Guides NSW & ACT reserves the right to Catering + Engineering Mount Keira July 20 June 28 edit or refuse articles or advertisements from Guide Style any source. Engineering Guide Style Mount Keira July 20 June 28 Leadership Qualification Austral July 20 June 28 Minimum height of LandscapeWA1304© Logos Girl = Guides12mm NSW & ACT April 2013. Colour can not be changed from what is shown Program Explored Mount Keira July 21 June 28 Printed on 100% recycled paper created entirely from post consumer waste, using vegetable oil based inks and an alcohol-free ISO 14001 certified UPCOMING EVENT DATES printing process. Event Location Event Date Closing Date Other logos which apply to ecoStar paper Minimum width of Portrait Logos = 17mm Colour can not be changed from what is shown Nords Wharf, Way To Go Boating Mount Canobolas May 03–05 CLOSED & TBA () Caving Weekend Wee Jasper May 17–19 CLOSED State AGM Glengarry May 25 TBA General information you may wish to use State Awards Presentation Abbotsleigh May 26 TBA G-news Innabaanya, Glengarry, Way To Go Pioneering June 21–23 May 10 ecoStar is a Forest Stewardship CouncilAre you (FSC) certified recycled paper made from 100% post consumer waste fibres.Port Macquarie, FSC is a not-for-profit organisationreceiving encouraging the the responsible management of the world’s forests. FSC certificationCamp Austral is recognised as a global standardweekly in forest G-news management practices and the Chain of Custody certification processJackadgery, from Guide Glengarry, enables the final printed document can be traced back to a certified source. Callemondah, Way To Go Indoor Camping July 05–07 May 10 House? Email Mount Keira, Printed on 100% recycled [email protected] created entirely from post consumer to waste, using vegetable oil based inks and anInnabaanya, ensurealcohol-free we have ISOyour 14001current email certified address. printing process. Burrabaroo Imagine More GG NSW & Glengarry July 05–07 TBA ACT Youth Forum Araluen National Snow Week July 07–12 May 10 follow us (Jindabyne)

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Printed on 100% recycled paper created entirely from post consumer waste, using vegetable oil based inks and an alcohol-free ISO 14001 certified printing process. Sheila Blackmore formed a Company (we now call them The Events Team and The Great Guide Units) of handicapped Girl Guides in 1956 and became Sleepover committee have eagerly launched Extension Adviser in 1966. into preparations for the annual Great Guide Sleepover at Taronga Zoo. Sheila had suffered with polio and multiple disabilities Launching soon, watch this space for more following a severe car accident. information and to meet this year's fun new Through her close association with girls with disabilities, mascot. she went on to form a registered charity NADOW which Some very important information for this year's helped many throughout learn work skills to then event: in addition to the sponsorship scheme be equipped to hold jobs. 2013 will see the introduction of a nominal booking fee — due to the popularity of the Sheila also organised special camps for the Guides so they event and the logistics surrounding the number could enjoy all the activities open to Guides throughout the of Girls who want to attend and the number of world. Girls who miss out. FROM THE ARCHIVES... Sheila's commitment to Guides and NADOW has been The booking fee will guarantee attendance and honoured by naming a street in the new Canberra suburb girls will no longer have to raise the minimum

of Coombs — Blackmore Street. COMING SOON: THE GREAT GUIDE SLEEPOVER 2013 sponsorship amount to guarantee their place.

What is the Community Program? from Canada. Our days started the same way every day Sangam (one of the World Association for Girl Guides and – breakfast, followed usually by a quick check we had Girl Scouts’ four World Centres, located in Pune, India) offers everything for the day before we walked to the rickshaw two forms of the Community Program, one spanning 12 stand and started our ride to work. After about 20 minutes weeks and the other four weeks. Both programs offer the we arrived in Magarpatta and after a short walk we were in opportunity to volunteer with one of Sangam’s Community the construction site where the Mobile Crèche was situated. Partner organisations and live at Sangam in the company The crèche is a concrete building with brightly painted of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts from across the world! walls, outside there is fresh drinking water and the children Participants in this programme are known as “Tare”, after are provided with three meals a day. The rooms are split the Hindi word for “stars”. into three sections – we TRIED to keep them separate which My Experience sometimes proved challenging. There were babies in one room, toddlers in another and a school children’s room I arrived in Mumbai at 11pm ready for the four hour drive where we spent the most time. to Pune, India. What an adventure! People always tell you about the traffic and noise of India but until you get there, In the morning we would have great fun trying to teach the you have no idea. school children basic English. This was by far the hardest part of the job. After the school children left we would have I arrived at Sangam and was met by Sarah, the Community the younger kids for about an hour before lunch then the Relations intern. After filling out some paperwork, it was toddlers after lunch which was always entertaining. There straight off to bed for a good night’s rest. was a lot of singing, dancing and just general fun.

In the morning I met my roommate and the other four We volunteered at our site for four days a week and on week Tare, before we headed off to meet the 12 Week Tare Wednesdays we would learn about Indian culture, have a who had already been at Sangam for four weeks and were Hindi lesson and we would go out on outing to different a great insight into India and our Community Partners. community partner and sites around Pune. Weekends we had to ourselves to go shopping, see temples, catch up on I had been asked about which Community Partner I would emails and most importantly, SLEEP IN! like to work with before I left for India and at the top of my list was the TARE Mobile Crèche. This is where I volunteered I applied and received the Amy Bush Bursary before I left the next four weeks. for Sangam. The bursary paid for the cost of the Community Program which included all my food and clean drinking Mobile Crèches was founded by Meera Mahadevan in water as well as all of the activities ran by Sangam. There 1969 in Delhi with the belief that every child has the was a small administration fee when I got to India and fundamental right to security, education, health care and of course my flights but receiving the bursary made it protection. A housewife at the time, she was passing a financially possible for me to go to Sangam. construction site when she was struck by the sight of a baby lying unattended and exposed to the harsh heat. The next I would highly recommend that everyone makes the trip day, she set up a tent, hired some help and started the first to Sangam at least once, it is an amazing opportunity Mobile Crèche. and I would like to thank the staff at Sangam – you were welcoming, fun and helped make my experience I volunteered with two other ladies — Meg, a very

ABBEY TOSOUNIDIS SHARES HER SANGAM EXPERIENCE... memorable. mature and kind 19 year old; and Leanne, a lovely lady

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