Things To Love This February: World Thinking Day

World Thinking Day is celebrated annually on February 22nd in the arena of Girl Scouts, and has been for 98 years--since 1926. Officially "Girl Scouts" falls in the more largely named "World Association of Girl Guides & Girls Scouts." This is an organization that touches 10 million girls in over 150 countries.

World Thinking Day is a day dedicated to international friendship, and thinking about global issues that impact each other. Themes differ from year to year, but this year's theme is Our World, Our Thriving Future: The Environment and Global Poverty.

Recent themes in years past (which also tie to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals) include:

• 2023: Our Planet, Our Peaceful Future
• 2022: Our World, Our Equal Future
• 2021: Stand Together for Peace - Peacebuilding
• 2020: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Whether you are a Girl Scout to any degree or not, thinking about our world, it's thriving future, and how the environment ties into global poverty is an important issue to think about. 

Here are some places you can learn more: 

• World Thinking Day 2024 Activity Guide--A 13 page activity guide which includes the story of "The Power of One Tree."

• WAGGGS.org's The 2024 World Thinking Day activity pack: Our World, Our Thriving Future--Here you can download a 58 page activity pack that includes how environmental issues can be solved through innovation and technology, including learning some environmental skills and tying into the natural world.

• To learn about the history of World Thinking Day, check out their WAGGGS.org official history link: 

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