Girl guides honoured with award
SEVEN AT MAJOR DUBLIN CEREMONY
SEVEN Drogheda teenagers received Irish Girl Guides’ highest award – the Trail Blazer National Guide Award – at a special ceremony.
Anna-Kate Collins, Laura Galvin, Linnea Hughes and Sophie Kirwan of Cú Chulainn Guides, Laura Black and Charlotte O’Neill of Boyne Valley Guides and Hellen Orabiyi Wilson of Millmount Guides were among 107 girls from around the country to blaze a trail to Croke Park with their proud families and Guide leaders to celebrate reaching the pinnacle of Guiding.
Each Girl Guide received a Trail Blazer gold pin and a National Guide Award certificate from Irish Girl Guides (IGG) President Maureen Murphy and IGG Chief Commissioner Helen Concannon.
The National Guide Award is made in recognition of the successful completion of a series of challenges, including teamwork activities, outdoor survival skills, community service, global awareness and working with younger IGG members to help them develop confidence, independence and essential life-skills.
Presenting the awards, IGG President Maureen Murphy said: “All the recipients have worked hard on their own initiative and, in doing so, demonstrated self-motivation, commitment and enthusiasm. Each girl has blazed a trail in her community to earn the award and I am sure will continue to blaze a trail not only in her own community, but in wider society too.”
As well as receiving a gold pin and a certificate, each Guide was also given a notebook with the message ‘Follow your dreams - they know the way’.