Join a campaign to halt make and end to poverty and hunger

Kenya Girl GuidesToday 1.02 billion people across the world are hungry and every day more than 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes - one child every five seconds. The problem is more acute for girls. Seven in every ten of the world’s hungry are girls and women and hunger reduces school attendance more for girls than for boys. Today, three fifths of the 115 million children who do not go to primary school are girls. Hungry girls start school later, if at all, learn less or do not finish, resulting in lower earnings and increased risk of future hunger. 

Though its Hunger and Poverty campaign, WAGGGS, its Member Organizations and Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, are working towards alleviating extreme poverty and hunger and helping girls and young women around the world to break the poverty cycle. Join in and help save lives and futures today.

If you add your voice to the millions of others participating in actions, petitions and competitions around the world you WILL make a difference to climate change.

Current campaigns

Stand up, Take Action 2010 Girl Guides and Girl Scouts all over the world ‘made noise’ for the MDGs as part of the Stand Up campaign on September 2010. Have a look at the recorded ‘heartbeat messages’ that we have featured on the website from El Salvador, Pakistan, Australia, Mexico and many more! 

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched the ‘1 billion hungry’ campaign, which aims to collect at least a million signatures against hunger. Watch WAGGGS representative Alessandra Tasca’s call to action and join in!

Girl Scouts of the PhilippinesThe Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and WAGGGS invite Girl Guides and Girl Scouts around the world to apply for a small grant of up to 250 USD for their projects to help save the planet.  The projects can be related to adaptation (helping people cope with climate change) or mitigation (preventing further CO2 emissions).

Play 'Freerice' an easy word game and for every answer you get right, the UN World Food Programme will donate 10 grains of rice to help end hunger. Make it one of your favourites and do a couple of quick answers in your spare time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Previous campaigns

Pakistan Girl Guides Association -Stand up 2010

 

The global campaign stand up and make your heart beat was joined by many WAGGGS members around the world in September 2010. Check out the videos!

The 2009 Stand up against poverty campaign saw Girl Guides and Girl Scouts breaking a Guinness World Record and Member Organizations, troops, groups and individuals taking action in many different ways.

World Thinking Day 2010 -Sagno badgeWorld Thinking Day 2010 was themed ‘together we can end extreme poverty and hunger’. Thousands of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts raised awareness, took action and collected donations for this global WAGGGS campaign.

The WAGGGS/FAO drawing competition ‘Our World, Our Climate, Our Food’ was only one of many activities where WAGGGS members could join to celebrate World Food Day 2008

On World Food Day 2007 WAGGGS invited all members to join several actions to fight hunger

Cook Islands

 

In 2007 WAGGGS partnered with the World Food Programme on the campaign ‘Fight Hunger: Walk the World’

White band day in 2006 was a unique opportunity for WAGGGS members to show solidarity in the fight agaist poverty and hunger.

Girl Guides and Girls Scouts around the world were called to join the world record attempt to Stand Up Against Poverty in October 2006.

In 2006 WAGGGS invited all members to join the global call to action against poverty