The Lesotho Girl Guides Association (LGGA) is the national
Guiding organization of
Lesotho
Lesotho ( ), officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a country landlocked country, landlocked as an Enclave and exclave, enclave in South Africa. It is situated in the Maloti Mountains and contains the Thabana Ntlenyana, highest mountains in Sou ...
. It serves 1,783 members (as of 2008).
Founded in 1925, the girls-only organization became a full member of the
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1978.
The Girl Guide emblem features a
crocodile
Crocodiles (family (biology), family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. The term crocodile is sometimes used even more loosely to inclu ...
, the symbol of the
dynasty of Lesotho's largest
ethnicity
An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include common sets of traditions, ancestry, language, history, ...
, the
Sotho Sotho may refer to:
*Sotho people (or ''Basotho''), an African ethnic group principally resident in South Africa, Lesotho and southern Botswana
* Sotho language (''Sesotho'' or ''Southern Sotho''), a Bantu language spoken in southern Africa, an off ...
.
See also
*
Lesotho Scouts Association
Lesotho has 371 Boy Scouting, Scouts served by the Lesotho Scout Association. Founded in 1936, it became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1971.
As Lesotho is a small, mountainous country with difficult communication li ...
References
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts member organizations
Scouting and Guiding in Lesotho
Youth organizations established in 1925
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