Delegation Preparation Day

Today we went as a delegation to the headquarters of Girl Scouts USA and spent the day preparing for advocacy and events during the next week.

We discussed our individual motivations for being here, what we hoped to gain and where we hope to go in the future, and my answers very much centred around this Speak Out, Reach Out, Camp Out project.

Then we moved on to be presented with our delegation scarfs - creating a unity in uniform for eight young women coming from a wide variety of different countries (UK, Canada, New Zealand, Denmark, Greece, Tunisia, Costa Rica and Rwanda).

The afternoon was spent learning how to deal with potentially tricky situations when advocating, and then we continued planning our first parallel event which will be held tommorrow in the Church Centre opposite the United Nations (Floor 2, 4pm). The topic is "formal and non-formal education - a lifecourse approach" and we will be teaming up Soroptomists International to provide a panel presentation and discussion.
If your in New York then drop by! :)