The Davao del Norte Girl Scouts Council will host the 38th National Encampment of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines (GSP) with the theme, “I Imagine, I Achieve, I Serve” from April 11 to April 15, 2015 in Camp Alano in Toril, Davao City.
“Yes, the girls can do,” GSP 1st national vice president Dr. Cristina Lim-Yuson said as she summed up the self-development return that each girl-participant would be bringing with them when they go home after attending the encampment.
“We want our girls to look ahead too 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 expects the girls to build relationships during the encampment, which will also feature outdoor activities that used to be for boys only.
“The girls say they can do it and yes, they can!” she said.
Based on the recently released preliminary schedule of activities, the participants will do adventure activities at D’ Leonor Resort where they will experience the wave pool with raging water, the hanging bridge, 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.
They will also experience “A Walk Through My World” adventure which will take them to an IMAX 3D movie, among others.
In a separate interview, Girl Scouts Encampment Promotions and Publicity Committee chair Norma R. Pereyras said each of the 97 Girl Scouts Councils in the Philippine will be sending 16 participants to the encampment, reaching a total of 1,552 expected participants.
GSP Eastern Mindanao Region chair Lolita Garcia, however, said the total number of participants will reach 1,838 to include the adult chaperons and staff. The figure could even be more as “others would possibly register on-site,” she added.
Davao del Norte Girl Scouts Council President Providencia P. Nunez has been on the thick of preparations since late last year, being the chair 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)
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