Me as a leader

Our safari today began with some reflections on yesterday’s experiences and we came out with some proposals for the projects of Kenya Girl Guides Association (KGGA). We saw how the projects changed and improved lives of the local communities and it inspired us with suggestions to expand on partnerships between KGGA and the local NGOs so they can work together to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

After a small morning ‘chai’ break, we were introduced with some tools to help discover ‘Me as a leader and me as a learner’. A leader is always learning, growing and adapting to the change around her. As for some of us, we actually found out that there is leadership potential in ourselves before us realizing it.

The afternoon session centered around diversity. Through a number of games, group activities and brainstorming challenges, we learned that although in some ways we are very different, in many ways we are similar. We explored how our attitudes affect our ability to manage diversity: “We are not free to choose our destiny, but we are free to choose our attitude against the destiny.” 

The last session of the day was on the very significant centenary celebration that every Guide is proud of and would like to be part of it. We were inspired with the plans of the three years continuous celebrations! All of us are really excited to contribute in various ways involving the Member Organizations, regions and WAGGGS. Some of the participants are Centenary Ambassadors from their countries and they shared celebration plans of their countries with us.

Before ending the day, we took the opportunity to share our creative ideas about plenty of significant activities to celebrate our 100 years in Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting.