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Hong Kong Girl Guides Association (Chinese: 香港女童軍總會) is the sole Guide organisation in Hong Kong. It was formally established in 1919 though the first Girl Guides Company was formed in 1916. The association became a full member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1978. It serves 55,145 members.
Girl Guides Singapore (GGS; Malay: Pandu Puteri Singapura) is the national Guiding organisation of Singapore. It was first established in 1917 as The Singapore Girl Guides Association , before being renamed to its current iteration on 24 July 2004.
Pakistan Girl Guides Association (PGGA, پاکستان گرل گائڈزایسوسی ایشن) Founding: 118,000: Papua New Guinea: Girl Guides Association of Papua New Guinea: 1978: 1,200: Philippines: Girl Scouts of the Philippines (GSP) Founding Member: 671,000: Singapore: Girl Guides Singapore (GGS, Pandu Puteri Singapura) Founding Member ...
girls-only Singapore: Girl Guides Singapore: full 9,268 1966 1917 girls-only Slovakia: Slovenský skauting: full 2,621 1928/1990 1919 both Slovenia: Združenje slovenskih katoliških skavtinj in skavtov: full 4,373 1928/1996 1922 both Solomon Islands: The Girl Guides Association of the Solomon Islands: associate 697 1987 1949 girls-only South ...
The 33rd World Conference logo combined the WAGGGS logo and the South African Guides chosen pattern. [7] The Girl Guides Association of South Africa wanted to portray their African dream and the sense of unity of all Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. Ten lines within the logo symbolise the ten Laws shared by Girl Guides and Girl Scouts.
In addition, there are American Boy Scouts in Singapore, serving in Cub Scout Pack 3017 and Boy Scout Troop 07, chartered by the American Association of Singapore, and Boy Scout Troop 102, chartered by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. These groups are organized under the Direct Service Center in Irving, Texas, USA.
Scouting in Hong Kong was begun by The Boys' Brigade in 1909. There is also a record of Chums Scouts and the British Boy Scouts in Hong Kong. Later, the St. Joseph's College Scouts were formed in 1913 and registered with The Boy Scouts Association of the United Kingdom in 1914 as its 1st Hong Kong Troop.
Scout training was first introduced to boys in Hong Kong in 1909 and 1910, only a few years after the beginning of the Scout movement in the United Kingdom, when Rev. Spink started a Boys' Brigade Company attached to the St. Andrew's Church in Kowloon, in response to popular requests for Scouting activities in the expatriate community of Hong Kong. [3]