"The mission of the Boy Scouts of America is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Scout Law."
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS):
Our Mission:
To enable girls and young women to develop their fullest potential as responsible citizens of the world.
World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM):
The Mission of Scouting:
The mission of Scouting is to contribute to the education of young people, through a value system based on the Scout Promise and Law, to help build a better world where people are self-fulfilled as individuals and play a constructive role in society.
Boy Scouts and Girl Guides/Girl Scouts are run by various non-profit/non-governmental (NGO) organizations, depending on their location.
There are Girl Guides in the Netherlands (Holland). Scouting Nederland (SN) is a combined organization for Girl Guides and Boy Scouts in the Netherlands.
The Girl Scouts and Girl Guides share the same motto as the Boy Scouts. This motto from 1907 is 'Be Prepared."
The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) is an organization only for girls. WAGGGS member organizations are not allowed to have male members under the age of 18. In some countries, where Girl Guides/Girl Scouts meet jointly with Boy Scouts, the girls are members of WAGGGS and the boys are members of the WOSM.
The feminine of Boy Scout is Girl Scout. It's not rocket science, honey. Just like how the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, a Boy Scout is a boy and a Girl Scout is a girl. Keep it simple, darling.
There were Girl Guides in Turkey as early as 1912. The central governing body for both Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, the Directorate of Scouting and Guiding, was founded in 1936.
At the time when Boy Scouts and Scouting were getting their start from Robert Baden-Powell, girls became interested in what the boys were doing and said they wanted to be Boy Scouts. Robert Baden-Powell thought that girls should have their own organization, so he asked his sister to help start Girl Guides. The organization is known as Girl Guides in some places and Girl Scouts in others.
The masculine noun for "girl-guide" would be "boy-scout." In this context, "boy-scout" refers to a member of the scouting organization that is traditionally associated with boys, as opposed to the girl-guides organization which is for girls. The term "boy-scout" is used to distinguish male members of the scouting movement from their female counterparts.
The girl scouts in the Philippines has 10 laws and a scout promise. The scout promise says, "on my honor, I will do my duty to god and my country; to help other people at all times; and to live by the girl scout law".
The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) claims to have over 10 million members in 145 countries world wide. The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) claims 31 million members world wide.
It was, until 1960 when the boy scouts and girl guides merged into the same organization
For Boy Scouts, the largest gatherings are usually called "jamborees".Girl Guides and Girl Scouts use and have used various terms for large gatherings, including "roundup", "camporee", "world camp", and "jamboree". Currently, the largest gatherings for the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) are called "international camps" or are given a specific name that describes the event.