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Thursday, July 31, 2025

Girl Guides head: Don’t let COVID stop movement

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Innis Francis
1704 days ago
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De­spite the surge of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic glob­al­ly, par­ents in Trinidad and To­ba­go are be­ing urged to en­cour­age their daugh­ters to join the Girl Guides As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go as they will be bet­ter equipped with the core val­ues and life skills as they grow to be­come adults.

Chief com­mis­sion­er of the Girl Guides As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T Jacque­line Dol­ly said par­ents should see the ad­van­tages of the as­so­ci­a­tion that prac­ticed in 150 coun­tries.

She made the com­ment on Sat­ur­day as the lo­cal arm formed a mo­tor­cade and drove a 15K dis­tance from Skin­ner Park, San Fer­nan­do to Mara­bel­la and back, to com­mem­o­rate 100 years of the San Fer­nan­do arm of the as­so­ci­a­tion.

“We are the strongest in the world. Par­ents, this is an­oth­er way for your chil­dren to learn about val­ues and about life skills; it is an­oth­er way for your chil­dren to learn oth­er than in the class­room. We of­fer non-for­mal ed­u­ca­tion, so we are ask­ing par­ents to al­low their chil­dren to be­come mem­bers of the Girls’ Guides As­so­ci­a­tion,” Dol­ly told the gath­er­ing.

Dol­ly said girls be­come mem­bers through Brown­ies at the age of six and grad­u­ate in­to Girls’ Guide un­til they are 21 years old.

She said it was try­ing times like these, in the year 2020 with COVID-19’s bold ex­is­tence, that the girls are pre­pared for out­door train­ing, which the as­so­ci­a­tion pri­mar­i­ly is about.

“Learn­ing how to cope in dif­fi­cult sit­u­a­tions, like what is hap­pen­ing now with the pan­dem­ic, we pre­pare our girls for things like that,” Dol­ly ex­plained.

“Our girls know how to have life out­doors; they learn so much, so don’t de­ny them that. We are hav­ing many of our meet­ings on­line, the lead­ers are meet­ing the girls, but you know Girls’ Guide is about out­doors. As Girls’ Guides we have to make the best of the sit­u­a­tion and thank God we have tech­nol­o­gy so that guid­ing is not go­ing to die, if we can’t meet face to face then we meet on­line.”

Present for the mo­tor­cade were cur­rent Girls Guide pres­i­dent Jen­nifer John­son, in­ter­im di­vi­sion com­mis­sion­er Mer­lyn Bark­er-Dun­can, se­nior mem­bers with over 60 years ser­vice, San Fer­nan­do lead­ers and oth­er di­vi­sions, par­ents and the Girls Guides.


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