Girl Guides Association of Zimbabwe | |||
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Headquarters | 151 Harare Street, Harare | ||
Country | Zimbabwe | ||
Founded | 1912 | ||
Membership | 49,184 | ||
Affiliation | World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts | ||
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The Girl Guides Association of Zimbabwe (GGAZ) is the national Guiding organisation of Zimbabwe. It serves 49,184 members as of 2018.[1] Founded in 1912, the girls-only organisation became a full member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts as the Girl Guides Association of Rhodesia in 1969. The Wayfarers, a sort of Guiding for native African girls began in 1926 after a visit to the colony by Olave Baden-Powell. In 1935 there were some 600 Wayfarers and 300 Sunbeams, the African equivalent of Brownies in Guiding. In 1940, the two movements started to merge; this process was completed in 1950. The name of the association changed in 1981 from the Girl Guides Association of Rhodesia to the Girl Guides Association of Zimbabwe.