The Association des Guides du Rwanda (AGR; ''Rwanda Girl Guides Association'') is the national
Girl Guides
Girl Guides (or Girl Scouts in the United States and some other countries) are organisations within the Scout Movement originally and largely still for girls and women only. The Girl Guides began in 1910 with the formation of Girlguiding, The ...
organization of
Rwanda
Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by ...
. The association served 13,807 members (as of 2013). Founded in 1962, the girl serving organization became a full member of the
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS ) is a global association that supports Girl Guides, female-oriented and female-only Guiding and Scouting organizations in 153 countries. It was established in the year 1928 in Parád, H ...
in 1981.
Program and ideals
The
Guide Motto is ''Uwe Tayari'', ''Be Prepared'' in
Swahili
Swahili may refer to:
* Swahili language, a Bantu language officially used in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda and widely spoken in the African Great Lakes.
* Swahili people, an ethnic group in East Africa.
* Swahili culture, the culture of the Swahili p ...
, ''Ube Maso'' in
Kinyarwanda
Kinyarwanda, Rwandan or Rwanda, officially known as Ikinyarwanda, is a Bantu language and the national language of Rwanda. It is a dialect of the Rwanda-Rundi language that is also spoken in adjacent parts of the Democratic Republic of the ...
, and ''Sois Prêt'' in French.
The Guide emblem incorporates the color scheme of the
flag of Rwanda
The national flag of Rwanda is a horizontal tricolour of light blue, yellow, and green, in a 2:1:1 ratio, charged with a golden sun in the upper fly-side corner. It was adopted on 31 December 2001 and replaced the flag adopted shortly before ...
.
Sources
Rwanda Girl Guides official website
See also
*
Rwanda Scouts Association
The Rwanda Scouts Association (RSA; formerly in French ''Association des Scouts du Rwanda'') is the national Scouting organization of Rwanda. Scouting in Rwanda was founded in 1940 and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Moveme ...
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts member organizations
Scouting and Guiding in Rwanda
Youth organizations established in 1962
1962 establishments in Ruanda-Urundi
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