north east regional extra | July 10 - 16, 2019
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July 10 - 16, 2019
By KYLIE WILSON
◆ RISING TO CHALLENGES: Belinda Lacy has been involved in the Girl Guide movement for most of her life.
FOR over 30 years, Wangaratta’s Belinda Lacy has had an indelible connection with the Girl Guide movement. She first got involved in the Brownies at Boweya, as many of her peers in the small community were also involved. “It was just the done thing,” she said. Once she got older, it was necessary to join one of the Girl Guide units in Wangaratta, and she was happily involved there between 1993-1995, later joining the Wangaratta Sregnar Unit and becoming a junior leader. Belinda said she has many happy memories of her youth in the Guiding movement. She said she particularly loved camping, because it gave her the opportunity to enjoy the great outdoors, learning skills and meeting challenges, as well as meeting new people who were “very soon friends”. After her time in Wangaratta, Belinda continued to be involved in Guiding, and was excited in the mid-2000s to be able to volunteer in Phnom Penh, Cambodia with the Girl Guide Association there through the Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development (AYAD) program funded through DFAT. She spent a year there working in the national office undertaking administration support, as well as leaders training.
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