Linking in.

When a Youth member begins to link into the Gipp's Guides they select to do three personal challenges.

• Service
• to Guiding
• To the community
• collaboratively organise an activity where either
• the community may attend
• Youth members
• District Team
• Region Members

            or

• They bring their friends and other Gipp's Guide members together.
• The third is active participation with
• The Gipp's Guide events
• The District events
• If possible the Region events
• Also finding out about and participation with State and other levels of Guiding events.

At any time the Gipp's Guide may Choose to make her Guide Promise.  When this occurs she may then register to have the Promise Ceremony with another Gipp's Guide being there to 'take' her Promise - This Gipp's Guide of course has already made her Promise.

OBP Registration Samar

The following proposed OBP sections and starting dates are the ones that have been sent to Melbourne for registration.

Section 1 : Personal.

Apply for recognition of prior learning of the Aged Care Cert III which is nearing its completion date. If this is not possible include the further higher study within the Health Care field applied for.

Recognition of Prior Learning began 2009 ending December 2009.

Further studies begin Feb 2010 once accepted.

Section 2 : Practical.
No 5) Working with other Olave Baden-Powell members to really get the 'members' active and moving is a real challenge for Samar. This will include her Presidency and the development of a communication medium for all to use.
Begining Jan 2010 until May 2011

Section 3: Social.

No 3) Attend the Girls Rock forum and actively participate in it. Then hold a discussion with your peer group on the reasons for this choice, what she learned and how this knowledge can be used.
Begining Feb 2010 and fnishing May 2011.

Section 4 : Physical.

No 4) Water confidence is a new physical activity for a period of three months. To be able to canoe water confidence is important. With the main objective being able to canoe water acticvities are particullary important. So water aerobics and learning the basics of being able to swim is the essence of the physical activities chosen.
Ultimate Goal: to be able to canoe. During this time she be discussing her progress with the other Gipps Guides. Maybe on line through the Guides Face book too. Updates and a report will be submitted at the end of this time.
Beginning Jan 2010 the three months ends in April 2010. How ever this is a long
term project.

Section 5 :Service.
No 2) The disadvantaged group chosen is the Parkistani and Indian community. Especially concentrating on how the women within these groups are intergrating or allowed to intergrate into Australian society, it's communities, groups, social and education aspects.
Beginning Feb 2010 to August 2010

Section 6: Further Development.

Gaining the Adult version of the Centuary Challenge Badge. Encouraging others to participate. Organising displays and challenges along the way.

Using the information gained to enhance understanding of what Guides is, where Guides has come from and the future pathways/ highways that Guiding will be taken along / down.
Beginning Feb 2010 to May 2011

Encouraged to be written by Clear Vision

more Jewelery making days

Kira would like more days Jewelery making.  What about asking other Gipps Guides and others who are able to attend if they can make it on a week day?  Say a time / day that the Glendonald Child and Maternal Health Center has not got kids using it?  Make this once a month at first.  Then see if it can be developed from here!

This is what developing ones interests is all about...experiancing and experimentation.  Along the way the net work of people interested in one thing will grow, membership of Gipps Guides and other guiding things will expand. 

When any of this occurs you have the beginning of empowerment happening.  Go for it.

Melbourne quearies for membership.

Samar knows of other people who are from Melbourne.  They too want to join into the Olave Program. The basic procedure is to get in touch with touch with the Melbourne office via a Cluster representive and go through there channels.  However yes invite people who are interested in what you are doing up to the meetings, activites, events and services that are happening. 

Word of Mouth is terrific advertising.  Interested people share ideas and better yet you experience and join in with a wider range of activities, services and event.  You then have more opportunities to net work your self, skills, and knowledge.

Deb Ball suggested

If this is held will need a lot more input and money than we currently have. So was deferred to 2011, possibly 2012 during spring [September]. Gives us time to build up the membership some.


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Welcome to Jess

Hi there Jess.  I hope you enjoy yourself here too.