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Jun 14, 2010

Almost a century later, the Girl Scouts movement is still engaged in service

A Girl Scout’s life is typically associated with the selling of cookies, going to camps and earning badges — a phase of girlhood that might last 10 to 12 years. Shariffa Keshavjee, however, has been a Girl Scout for 57 years.
She began at the age of eight as a Girl Guide at the Aga Khan Primary School in Mombasa, Kenya. In 1993, she served as the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts representative at the United Nations. Today, she is the National Vice-Chairman at the Kenya Girl Guides Association (KGGA) and she helped begin the Hawkers Market Girl Centre in Kenya.

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Ismaili scouts earn prestigious Eagle Scout award for outstanding community service

People most commonly remember their scouting experiences for their fun camps, the skills they learnt and the discipline that the movement instils. However, a select group of boys who have the opportunity to call themselves Eagle Scouts can attest that scouting is much more than that. It is about creating leaders.

On 20 December 2009, ten scouts from the Boy Scout Troop 758 of Carrollton, Texas, were recognised at the Eagle Scout Court of Honor, which was held at the Ismaili Jamatkhana in Plano, Texas. This prestigious rank is achieved by only five per cent of all Boy Scouts nationally.

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