Day 3's reflections were conducted by Australia, entitled, "Together We Can Change the World". They also sang a lively song they composed on the Global Action Themes.
Summit Sessions
The girls led a session comprising of an action song - Making Melodies, and the room was filled with laughter as we did funny actions.
Thereafter, adult leader attended a talk by Ms Deanie Lyn Ocampo, Executive Vice President of Kaisa Para Sa Kaunlaran Foundation, Inc. on how effective NGOs operate. She shared her experiences as a mover in a non-governmental organization, as well as the many challenges that her foundation is facing. She imparted three important lessons: valuing inter-generations in an organization, investing early in succession planning and moving courageously and creatively to new beats in response to the needs of the time.
The next session on the factors hindering Member Organizations' effectiveness was facilitated by Ms June Cameron. During the session, the lack of courage to change, lack of clear vision and mission, element of fear, lack of clarity in roles and internal conflict were identified as the factors.
In a separate session, the girls had a dialogue session with Ms Mengfei Wu, Regional Director of the Asia Pacific Region. We got to know more about her personal experiences, such as how she became the director of the Asia Pacific Region and some of her goals.
The next session was a very enjoyable one for the girls as we got to have a taste of what it was like to be participating in a Peer Education Programme. The programme was conducted by five trained Peer Educators from the Girl Scouts of the Philippines. Each of them specialises in one of the five topics relating to adolescent health. Regine focuses on Adolescence, Angelica on Fertility Awareness, Teesha on Gender and Sexuality, Kyla on STI / HIV / AIDS and Michelle on Violence Against Women and Children. They shared games, videos and presentations with the girls and everyone had a great time. We were also amazed by how well they knew about their topic and by the fact their commitment to this programme as when we were told that they travel throughout the Philippines to conduct this programme.
The last summit session of the day was on building a vision. Adult leaders and girls formed groups to carry out discussions. However, besides discussing and writing down ideas, we also searched for photos using magazines, and used them to represent our ideas. At the end of the session, each group presented its vision and the components that were pieced together to form the vision.
Market of Ideas
Day 3 ended with the Market of Ideas. It was a great opportunity to exchange ideas with other countries on our programmes and what we do to tackle the 6 major problems that Guiding is facing. Each Member Organization set up a stall to "sell" their ideas. Many even used creative marketing strategies such as distributing samples and showing videos! At the end of this activity, there were lots of singing and dancing to the song, "Nobody". This was led by the Girl Scouts of Korea and the atmosphere for brought to an even higher level with GEPSIE, the mascot of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines!
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