GOLD 2012 launch

Girlguiding's international GOLD (Guiding Overseas Linked with Development) projects have kicked off in countries including Cambodia and Armenia.

GOLD enables young women to make a difference in the world through running voluntary projects as varied as setting up a 'Rainbow' section in Sri Lanka to developing young leaders in Tanzania. and at the same time improving their skills and experiencing a new culture.

Describing their experience in a blog, Team Guyana wrote,
'We have arrived in sunny and hot Guyana and have just about settled in! Yesterday we flew in to Cheddi Jagan Airport and - after the scariest landing ever - were picked up by Berle, the Chief Commissioner of Guyana Girl Guides, and Erin, a guide herself who Nikki met last year.

'The flight was pretty cool - over the rainforests and some reefs and ocean shelves! We drove to Georgetown (mouths wide open all the way at the houses and trees!) and were shown the HQ where we will train, the supermarket and the place where we can get drinking water.' 

Other projects are taking place in Guyana, Latvia and Malawi, with a new scheme running in The Gambia.

If you are a member and interested in going on a GOLD project, visit the GOLD pages of the members' area to find out more.