The World Association Training scheme was a
Girl Guiding activity after
World War II.
Mona Burgin was the leader of the first team briefed to find and support
Guides living in displaced persons' camps. After the team's first tour of duty, General Sir
Evelyn Fanshawe
Major-General Sir Evelyn Dalrymple Fanshawe, CB, CBE (25 May 1895 – 14 March 1979) was a British Army officer and the Director of the International Refugee Organisation in the British Zone of Germany from 1948 to 1952.
A grandson on his moth ...
, at that time in charge of the
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration relief operation in the then
British Zone of occupied Germany, "remarked that, in his opinion,
Scouting
Scouting, also known as the Scout Movement, is a worldwide youth movement employing the Scout method, a program of informal education with an emphasis on practical outdoor activities, including camping, woodcraft, aquatics, hiking, backpacking ...
and Guiding were the most rehabilitative factors at work in the camps at that time."
Elizabeth Hartley followed Burgin as leader of the team.
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International Scouting
Exile organizations
Displaced persons camps in the aftermath of World War II