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1,800 Girl Guides will camp outdoors in Tipperary
Ireland, 06/06/2017 – 1,800 Girl Guides will camp under canvas at Rockwell College, Tipperary, from 30 July to 6 August 2017. It will be the biggest Girl Guide camp to ever take place in Ireland! The girls, who will be aged 10-16, will come from the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Georgia as well as the UK and all corners of Ireland.
Health promotion will be a large feature of the camp with girls taking part in a wide range of fun and educational health-promoting activities – everything from assault courses, kayaking, building rafts, playing quidditch, building rockets and volcanoes to cooking dishes from around the world and taking part in music, dance, body confidence, yoga and meditation workshops. There will also be trainings on climate justice and sustainability and how to advocate for gender equality and to stand up for refugees.
The girls will help prepare healthy meals and will have limited access to their phones. They will also have the option of undertaking an overnight survival exercise.
The girls will also learn about the Sustainable Development Goals and will explore ways that they can make a difference in their local communities and overseas.
There will also be interesting visitors to the camp, including supermodel and Miss International Ireland Katherine Gannon who will talk to the girls about air-brushing and what goes on behind the scenes in the modelling industry. Katherine believes the most important thing in life is to be happy and healthy. Her attitude ties in nicely with our Free Being Me body confidence programme, which boosts girls’ body image and body confidence as it encourages girls to accept their natural body shapes and to be free to use their bodies for what they enjoy, whether that is dance or sport etc.
Blogger and social commentator Sinéad Burke (aka Minnie Mélange) will also attend the camp. As an advocate for equality, Sinéad will encourage the girls to speak up for equality and to strive for a world where equality is a reality, not an aspiration.
Guiding helps girls and young women develop a social and environmental conscience while taking part in team-building and problem-solving games and challenges. It gives girls the opportunity to step outside their comfort zones, challenge themselves, try new things and make new friends. It helps them expand their horizons while increasing their inter-personal skills. Girls discover that their voices matter and learn to speak up on behalf of others and take action where they see injustice.
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Contact:
Fiona Murdoch
Communications Officer
Irish Girl Guides, 27 Pembroke Park, Dublin 4
Tel: 01 6683898/085 8570565
www.irishgirlguides.ie