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History of GSP

The Girl Scouting movement began in the early 1900s when Robert Baden-Powell started the Boy Scouts and later his sister Agnes helped start the Girl Guides in the UK. The movement then spread globally with founders like Juliette Gordon-Low starting the first US Girl Scout troop in 1912. In the Philippines, the movement was started in the 1930s by social worker Josefa Llanes-Escoda who helped establish the Girl Scouts of the Philippines organization after being trained in the US.

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History of GSP

The Girl Scouting movement began in the early 1900s when Robert Baden-Powell started the Boy Scouts and later his sister Agnes helped start the Girl Guides in the UK. The movement then spread globally with founders like Juliette Gordon-Low starting the first US Girl Scout troop in 1912. In the Philippines, the movement was started in the 1930s by social worker Josefa Llanes-Escoda who helped establish the Girl Scouts of the Philippines organization after being trained in the US.

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HISTORY OF THE GIRL

SCOUT MOVEMENT
INTRODUCTION TO THE SCOUTING
MOVEMENT
•It was started in 1906 by an Englishman
and an army officer named Robert
Baden-Powell. From that time on to the
present, Scouting had a great impact on
young people all over the world.
Robert Baden-Powell
• Known as B-P
• was born on February 22, 1857 in Paddington,
London
• In 1876, he went to India as a young army officer
and specialized in scouting, map-making, and
reconnaissance.
• In 1907, he held an experimental camp on
Brownsea Island, Poole, in Dorset, to try out his
ideas on scouting.
• He brought together 22 boys, some from private
schools and some from working class homes and
took them camping under his leadership.
• Scouting spread quickly throughout the British
Empire and to other countries until it was
established in practically all parts of the world.
• In 1909 at the at the Crystal Palace rally of the
Boy Scouts in England, a group of uniformed
girls came out in the open and voiced their appeal
to B-P to form a similar movement for girls.
• He requested his sister, Agnes Baden-Powell to
help im to start a movement for girls.
•The girls were called “Guides” and they
accepted the feminine adaptations.
•The Girl Guiding movement swelled all
over England at much the same rate as the
Boy Scouting movement.
•In May 1910, Agnes Baden-Powell
became the first President of the Girl
Guides.
Agnes Baden-Powell
•At the age of 53, B-P retired from the army
in 1910, on the advice of King Edward VII
who suggested that he could now perform
greater and more valuable service for his
country within the Scout Movement.
•He traveled to all parts of the world wherever
he was most needed to encourage growth and
give inspiration to Boy Scouts and Girl
Guides.
Three women, in so far as the Girl Scouts of the Philippines is
concerned, had shaped and contributed greatly to the Girl
Scouting/Girl Guiding World.

•LADY OLAVE BADEN-POWELL


•JULIETTE GORDON-LOW
•JOSEFA-LLANES-ESCODA
LADY OLAVE BADEN-
POWELL
• Formerly Lady Olave St.
Clair Soames, came quietly
into the movement when she
met B-P and married him in
1912.
• B-P and Lay Olave (born in
1889) were born on the same
day, February 22.
• That day is celebrated throughout the Girl
Guiding and Girl Scouting World as World
Thinking Day. – a day when Girl Guides and
Girl Scouts think of their founders, think of
each other, give thanks, and show their
appreciation for the international friendship
alive movement.
•She visited the Philippines twice.
•1st – March 25-27, 1958 as part of her
travel itinerary in Asia
•2 – October 11, 1966 during the
nd

Closing Ceremonies of the GSP’s 25 th

Anniversary held at Luneta


Grandstand.
JULIETTE GORDON-
LOW
• “Daisy”, a woman of means
from Savannah, Georgia and
widow of an Englishman named
William Low.
• From childhood she had been
fondly called “Daisy” like a
beautiful attractive Sunshiny
flower.
• In 1911, Juliette met Sir Robert Baden-Powell in
England. She was impressed by what he had
bbeen doing in the Scouting movement. Juliette
Low had been searching for such a movement
like this and she was excited to join B-P in his
adventure.
• March 12, 1912, first troop meeting of Girl
Scouts in United States was held in Savannah.
Participated actively as valued citizens who
were concerned about their future.
THE GIRL SCOUTING
MOVEMENT ARRIVES IN
THE PHILIPPINES
JOSEFA-LLANES-ESCODA

• Founder of the Girl Scouts of the


Philippines
• 3RD woman in the triad
• Well-known and respected social worker
and civic leader from Dingras, Ilocos
Norte.
• She had worked very hard to uplift the
condition of needy and disadvantage
people.
• Because of historical and political links of the Philippines
with the United States, Scouting found its way to Philippine
shores very easily.
• In 1917, there were troops organized by American Army and
Navy Families in various parts of the Philippines.
• In 1918, lone troops were found to be in existence in the
islands. Some of early troops were organized in Davao in
1918 , in Capiz in 1926, and in Mountain Province
(CAR) in 1928.
• Several of these troops were organized by missionaries.
• In 1925, had studied in the United States for her Master’s
Degree in Social Work from Columbia Uniersity.
• In 1933, returned to the United States to undergo training
in Girl Scouting. Her trip was sponsored by Jospeh E.
Stevenot of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines, Gneral
Vicente Lim and his wife, Mrs. Pilar Hidalgo Lim, who
was the President of the National Federation of Women’s
Clubs, and an active supporter for women’s suffrage.
• In 1965, celebrated the Silver Jubilee of the Girls Scouts
of the Philippines, special events and service projects were
calendared year round.
• Lady Olave Baden-Powell (The World Chief Guide),
arrived in Manila in December 1965 and was saluted by
more than five thousand Girl Scouts at the Pasasalamat
held at Luneta Park.
• The GSP was presentef the Walter Donald Ross Trophy
Award in 1965 for its outstanding service preoject
rendered to children of evacuees who were victims of the
eruption of Taal Volcano.
• On June 2, 1975, Presidential Decree 720 was signed,
authorizing the restructuring of the GSP.
• March 19, 1976, the new GSP Constitution and By Laws
were ratified and confirmed.

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