Europe Region (World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts)

The WAGGGS Europe Region is the regional office of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, which supports Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting in Europe, including the former Soviet Republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine, as well as Cyprus and Israel.

Europe Region
Map of members or potential members of the WAGGGS-Europe Region; Andorra, with no Guiding organization, and those outside the Region, are in grey
OwnerWorld Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
HeadquartersBrussels, Belgium
LocationRue Belliard,40 1000 Brussels
CountryBelgium
ChairEline Marie Grøholt
2019 - 2022[1]
Vice ChairLilit Chilingaryan[1]
Website
https://www.wagggs.org/en/our-world/europe-region/

History

All the formerly communist states of Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union have developed or are developing Guiding in the wake of the renaissance in the region. These include Albania, Bulgaria, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the successor states to Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and the Baltic nations independent of the former Soviet Union. Of these, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary have been most successful in regrowing their Guide movements and are very well-developed, thanks in part to the existence of Guides-in-Exile movements for the diaspora of each nation.

This region is the counterpart of the European Region of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM). The Europe Region WAGGGS has strong connections to the European Region of WOSM. Both maintained a joined office in Brussels for some years and published a monthly newsletter called Eurofax. Currently the two regions run the joint communication platform 'WEConnect'.[2]

PostSoviet nations are divided between the WAGGGS-Europe Region and the WAGGGS-Asia Pacific Region.

References
  1. "Europe Region". www.facebook.com. Archived from the original on 2022-02-26.
  2. https://weconnect.eu.com/
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