Girl scouts to shout out “I can”

DAVAO DEL NORTE, Feb. 06 (PIA) --Members of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines (GSP)  will  express  the theme, “I Imagine,  I Achieve, I Serve” during the 38th National Encampment  that will be hosted by Davao del Norte Girl Scouts Council,   projecting  a “can do” disposition .

“Yes,  the girls can do,” GSP 1st National Vice President, Dr. Cristina Lim-Yuson said as she summed up in general, the self-development return that each girl-participant would be bringing with them when they’d go  home after attending  the encampment that will be held from April 11 to April 15 this year at Camp Alano in Toril, Davao City.

“We want  our girls to look ahead on  what they can do to serve,”  she said in an interview during her interaction  and meeting with officers of GSP Eastern Mindanao Region  and with GSP Davao del Norte Council.

Yuson  also expected the  girls to build relationships during the encampment that will also feature outdoor activities which used to be “for boys”.  “But the girls says they can do it and yes, they can!,”  she said.

Based on the recently released preliminary schedule of activities,  the girl-participants will  do adventure activities at D’ Leonor Resort where they will experience  the wave pool  with raging water, the hanging bridge cross and  the wall climb facility of the resort.

They will engage in “Rope Challenges with Disaster Risk Reduction Management Training” to include spider web, obstacle course, lazy commando, rappelling and monkey bridge and they will also experience  the so-called “A Walk through My World” adventure which will take them to  a IMAX 3D movie watching, among others.

Girl Scouts Encampment Promotions and Publicity Committee chairperson Norma R. Pereyras in a separate interview said that the 97 Girl Scouts councils in the Philippine will be sending 16 participants to the encampment, reaching a total of 1,552 expected number of girl-participants.

GSP Eastern Mindanao Region Chairperson Lolita Garcia, however, said the total number of participants will reach 1,838  to include the adult chaperons and staff, and that the figure could even be more, as “others would possibly register  on-site”.

On the other hand, Davao del Norte Girl Scouts Council President Providencia P. Nunez has been on the thick of preparations since late last year, being the chairperson of the 38th GSP National Encampment Committee.

“We want to make sure that every girl will go home satisfied and happy,” she said.

She has formed committees on physical arrangement, program, ways and means, food, transportation and tours, reception-meetings-send off,  health and sanitations, promotions and publicity, security and safety.    (PIA 11/ Jeanevive D. Abangan)