World Centres
The founder of Girls Guides, Lord Robert Baden-Powell, and the World Chief Guide, Lady Olave Baden-Powell were born in the country where the Pax Lodge World Centre is located. This currency is used here.
What is the British pound, also called the pound sterling?
Our Guiding sisters in the United States have a similar organization to Girl Guides of Canada called Girl Scouts USA (GSUSA). Like us, Girl Scouts also sell cookies. This is the currency they use to sell their boxes.
What is the U.S. dollar?
These are the names of the five coins used in Canada.
What are the nickel, dime, quarter, loonie and toonie?
You see an ad on a social media platform for a cool-looking watch for free! All you have to do is pay for shipping! You decide to order the watch and it never arrives! You try reaching out to the company, but no one gets back to you.
What is a scam?
Coins or polymer bills/bank notes.
What is cash?
Our Chalet in Adelboden, Switzerland was the first World Centre of the World Association of Girls Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS). This centre is surrounded by beautiful mountains and is known for its hiking trails. If your unit went on an international trip to visit Our Chalet, you would need this currency to buy some of Switzerland’s famous chocolates.
What is the Swiss franc?
WAGGGS World Conferences happen every three years and are an important opportunity for setting policies and for developing new programs. The 35th World Conference was held in Hong Kong in July 2014. If you attended that conference, this is the currency you’d have needed to have on hand.
What is the Hong Kong dollar?
True or False? A famous Canadian woman is found on the $50.00 bill.
What is false? She can be found on the $10.00 bill!
Your mom told you she would pay you for cleaning out the garage and basement. You completed these jobs and she was supposed to give you the money this morning. She’s running late, and you notice her chequebook on her desk, so you write yourself a cheque and sign her name.
What is forgery?
A plastic card with numbers, a microchip, and your name. Also has the bank’s name.
What is a debit card or a credit card?
Emma bought a sari at the local market close to the Sangam World Centre and wore it later that week to visit the Taj Mahal. She used this currency to pay to enter the Taj Mahal.
What is the Indian rupee?
Imagine that your mother and grandmother were both Pathfinders before you and love their memories of being in Guiding. Now, as a family, you are travelling to Switzerland to Our Chalet for a family stay. From Our Chalet, you will then go to Germany for a three-day hiking trip. This is the currency you’ll need in Germany.
What is the euro?
True or False? In Canada we have $5.00, $10.00, $20.00, $50.00, $100.00, $1000.00 bills.
What is false? Canada does not have $1000.00 bill.
You receive a bill in the mail from a sports store for items that were ordered last week, even though you haven’t purchased anything from them in months. You contact the store and the manager tells you that they didn’t issue that bill. You check the bill and notice that the store address is different from the one you called.
What is false billing?
A plastic card with the logo or name of the company.
What is a gift card?
Imagine that your unit decided to take a trip down south. While staying at one of WAGGGS’ World Centres, your unit ate tacos and fajitas regularly and practiced speaking Spanish while helping out at a local school. This is the name of the World Centre, the country it’s in, and the currency they use there.
What is Our Cabana in Mexico? What is the Mexican peso?
You receive a handwritten letter from your Guiding pen pal in Oman! What type of currency did she use to pay for the postage?
What is the Omani rial?
Identify a coin, other than the penny, no longer used in Canada.
What is the fifty-cent coin?
On your way home, you stop at a convenience store. While paying with your debit card, you chat with the friendly clerk. You don’t notice that your card was swiped a second time by the clerk into another device. Two weeks later, you check your statement and see that you’ve been charged for several large transactions you didn’t make.
What is skimmimg?
A piece of paper with all your bank information written on the bottom in numbers.
What is a cheque?
Kusafiri is the only World Centre that changes locations for every event or program. When Kusafiri set up in Rwanda, visitors would have had to use this currency.
What is the Rwandan franc?
When you “Twin” with another Guiding organization in the world, you write letters and send videos to get to know each other. The Twinning 2020 partner for Alberta, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories is Guyana. If Guyanese Guiders were mailing SWAPS and needed to buy postage, this is the currency they’d use to pay for stamps.
What is the Guyanese dollar?
Identify three Canadian bills that are no longer used in Canada.
What are $1.00, $2.00, $25.00, $500.00 and $1000.00 bills?
You receive an email from your bank asking you to log in to their website and validate your information. Conveniently, there is a link in the email and it takes you to a page that looks just like the home page of your bank’s website.
What is phishing?
An email sent from your bank to another person.
What is an interac e-transfer