Chad
Association Des Guides Du Tchad
Girl Guiding/Girl Scouting introduced: 1957
Number of Girl Guides/Girl Scouts: 6450 (01/01/2006)
Status:
Full Member
Guiding Introduced on: 01/01/1957
WAGGGS Region:
Africa
Contact us
Commissaire Générale
Responable Des Guides Du Tchad
B.P. 4468 NDJAMENA
Fax: 00 235518540
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Promise:
Guide Promise:
Sur ma parole et avec l’aide de Dieu, je m’engage à servir de mon mieux Dieu, ma croyance et le Tchad, à aider les autres toujours et partout et à vivre la loi des guides
Guide Promise:
On my honour, and with God’s help, I pledge to do my best to serve God, my creed and Chad, to help others always and everywhere, and to live by the Guide law.
Promesse: Jeannette
Je promets de faire de mon mieux pour être fidèle à Dieu, à mon pays, à mes parents, à la loi de la ronde et pour faire chaque jour un plaisir à quelqu’un.
Brownie Promise
I promise that I will do my best in order to be faithful to God, to my country, to my parents, to the law of the Brownie pack and to make someone happy everyday.
Law:
Loi: Guide
La guide dit vrai
La guide pense d’abord aux autres
La guide est soeur des guides de toutes races
La guide respecte ce qui est aux autres
La guide respecte ce que Dieu a créé
La guide ne fait rien à moitié
La guide obéit
La guide est polite, elle sourit dans les difficultés
La guide est maîtresse de soi
La guide respecte son corps et le fair respecter par les autres
Guide Law
Guide: A Guide tells the truth
- A Guide puts others first
- A Guide is a sister to Guides of all races
- A Guide respects the property of others
- A Guide respects God’s creation
- A Guide does not do anything in halves
- A Guide is obedient
- A Guide is polite and smiles under all difficulties
- A Guide has self-control
- A Guide respects her body and makes others respect it.
Loi: Jeannette
Une Jeannette est toujours proper
Une Jeannette est toujours active
Une Jeannette est toujours gaie
Une Jeannette dit vrai
Une Jeannette pense d’abord aux autres
Une Jeannette est l’ami de Dieu
Brownie Law:
A Brownie is always clean
A Brownie is always active
A Brownie is always merry
A Brownie tells the truth
A Brownie puts others first
A Brownie is a friend of God
Motto:
Guides: Always Prepared (toujours prêtes)
Brownie: To do our best, best, best (De notre mieux, mieux, mieux)
Age groups:
Butterfly: 6 – 7
Brownie: 8-11
Guide: 12-14
Senior Guide: 15 – 17
Development of the movement:
Guiding was introduced in Chad in 1957 by Sisters of the Holy Cross coming from Jerusalem. The Movement grew throughout the south of the country due to the spread of Christianity. Today, the Movement has reached the capital, N'Djamena and there are units in six regions in the south: Ndjamèna, Doba, Moundou, Goré, Laï and Sarh.
Programme:
The programme is based around four ‘pillars’: Team life, discovery, commitment and progression. Its objectives are to develop girls and young women with regard to good health, intelligence, service to others, manual ability. It aims to prepare young girls to become women and mothers, and promotes international friendships as well as developing relations with other NGOs.
Mission: To provide girls and young women with opportunities in self-training in the development of character and of a sense of service and responsibility.
Relationship to society:
Guides do ‘good turns’ which include community development projects, such as working with special needs children and people from ethnic minorities. Guides also learn craft activities including pyrography, dress making, and macramé which they can sell as part of community development projects. Community development programmes are concerned with: improved health, improved nutrition, easing household chores such as wood and water collection, learning new skills, leadership, reforestation, and digging water wells.
Training:
Guiding in Chad is spiritually led with close relations with the Christian Church. Many of the unit are within diocesan teams and include a chaplain or priest. Chad has a Training Commissioner who organises training sessions and identifies need, develops educational material and co-ordinates the activities of trainers.
Outdoor and Environmental Activities
Guides du Tchad hold camps which teach girls and young women not only how to survive outdoors, but also how to cope in adversity and about sharing and working together. In their programme, there is much emphasis on the environment particularly with regard to tree planting, sustainable development and environmentally friendly disposal of waste
