2005. WH LINK PROJECT PROYECTOS ENLACE EN EL HO.

2005

WH LINK PROJECTPROYECTOS ENLACE EN EL HO

CANADA–HONDURAS

• Official link now completed

• Honduras now supporting• Nicaragua (work on the restarting of Guiding)

• Dominican Republic (work on training at national level)

• Mexico (invitation to visit Honduras and see how they work in the rural areas)

• Panama (work with funding proposals)

NETHERLANDS ANTILLES – ARUBA

• Working together as they have the same language

• Joint work on• Programme update• Trainings

BRAZIL – MEXICO

• Brazil has offered to send a member of their staff to work with them on Girl Guiding in rural areas and on IT.

Dominica – St Lucia

• Planning a joint camp in 2006

• Successful UPS Project development expanding into rural communities and school system

• Opened groups in children’s homes & marginal communities

• Agreement with National Network of Rural Women

• Agreement with Ministry of Education to open school groups

• Meeting membership target for 2005

MEXICO

• Submitted project proposal for Jan 07

• Topics to be• Nutrition (hunger)• Education (poverty)• Membership

BRAZIL

• Working on revision of Constitution(Terms of reference)

• Updating training • Caribbean Link Trainers of trainers

Conference in 2006

• Working on Caribbean web site

CARIBBEAN LINK

CARIBBEAN LINK

RESULTS - RESULTADOSIncrease membership meeting their Membership target are: Aruba, Mexico, Nicaragua, Argentina Increase in membership, but without meeting their membership target:

Colombia, Dominica, Panama, St. Vincent, Suriname

PANAMA• 1st prize by the Youth Projects national competition for their project on HIV/AIDS.

• Judges included the Minister for Social Development (pictured below) and a UN Representative.

HONDURAS• Received substantial funding from the World Bank for their project on preventing violence against women “A smile without violence”

AWARDS - PREMIOS• Premio Olave: Brasil• WAGGGS Bronze Medal:

– Doris Reihms (USA) – Judy Waters (Canada)– Roxanne Yates (USA)

• New OB-PS members:– 19 in Brazil – 9 in USA

YOUTH EVENTS• Forum for the future III, Brazil, 2005

• 5th Latino Conference, GSUSA, 2005

• WH Regional Youth Gathering being prepared with Our Cabaña for January 2007

REPRESENTATION - REPRESENTACION

• Young woman elected to the World Board

• Latin-American Youth Forum (FLAJ) Gathering represented by 3 young women from our region,

Spain 2005

Restarting Girl Guiding with great success, but in need of support. 

• Reached membership target of 500 in 18 months• Support given by WH to hire a promoter• Working on proposal for Ministry of Education.

NICARAGUA

St. Lucia

In the process of finalizing plans withthe National Television Company forthe recording of an advertisement onthe benefits of the Guiding principles

asit relates to crime prevention.