Wednesday - Forum Day!

Wednesday

Today marks the half way point to the 36th WAGGGS World Conference! We started off the day of course with our delegation morning meeting over breakfast. We are all enjoying the wonderful waffles and pancakes the hotel has on offer. It's was great to spend the morning together as we were all doing different things for the rest of the day.

Today's is a unique day for the conference as it consisted of various forum workshops that were taking place which were on so many different topics, it was hard to decide what to do!

We decided today would be the day we wore our lovely Girls Can t-shirts. We decided early in the morning to take our delegation photograph before we all split up (or spilt something down our nice white t-shirts!). We made some lovely friends from Palestine whilst we were outside in the sunshine, after spending quite a bit of time inside in the cool rooms with air con the heat was a little bit of a surprise to our systems.

Lots of photos on our Facebook page here - https://www.facebook.com/GuidingWAGGGS36thWorldConference/

We were excited for session two as we hosted our very own forum session on the topic of Social Action. We had 50 attendees to our session who were keen to learn about what Social Action is and how they can get involved themselves. We gave examples of different social Action projects that have already taken place in Girlguiding UK including a project to make Ivybridge in Devon a Fairtrade town and Girlguiding’s Action for Change project.


After hearing a little about what Social Action is the attendees were challenged to come up with their own ideas for Social Action project ideas and shared stories about projects they have done themselves. It was really great to hear the variety of projects that had already happened around the world as well as the inspiring ideas groups came up with.

At the end of our session we gave our attendees their very own Girls Can badge which they were keen to wear proudly on their scarves and conference lanyards.

We all enjoyed greatly all of the other forum sessions that we attended and thank the forum session leaders for all their hard work and inspirational messages.

The majority of the conference delegates spent the evening off on their adventures in either the markets of New Delhi or at a Bollywood evening. Our UK delegation decided to use the night off to spend some quality time together after spending the day apart. We enjoyed a lovely evening meal in the hotel as well as plenty of laughs and giggles.

Time for bed to get some very important sleep ready for tomorrow!

~ Leah