✨What a week! ✨ From pledges to powerful stories, community action, and youth-led change, the GYM Action Week 2025 brought together voices from across the globe in celebration of International Youth Day. 🌍💪🏽💚 Thank you to every young person, partner, and supporter who made this week unforgettable — your energy, creativity, and action are shaping a better future every single day!😍 @gymobilization #WAGGGSImpact #GYMActionWeek #InternationalYouthDay #YouthPower #GlobalYouth

📢Brazil’s Fórum do Futuro VI brought together 178 youth leaders and 150 facilitators in Rio de Janeiro to build a powerful national platform for dialogue, collaboration, and youth-led action. 💪 Over four days, participants gained skills in environmental leadership, gender equality, and social justice, while co-creating strategies for community change through the Assembleia de Guias. 🍃✨ With over 328 people engaged and strong inclusion of rural youth, young people with disabilities, and LGBTQ participants, the event proved that when youth are trusted and equipped, they become multipliers of change—returning home to launch clean-up campaigns, eco-clubs, and education projects that are already rippling through communities across Brazil.🌍💓 #YouthForClimate #GirlsLeadGreen #SustainableFuture #GYMActionWeek #YouthInAction #WAGGGSImpact @gymobilization

📢Across Madagascar, 6,500 Girl Guides are stepping up as climate leaders—equipping themselves and their communities with green skills that directly tackle the country’s most urgent challenges.💪✨ Through solar cooking, reusable menstrual pad production, composting, and waste management, girls are reducing dependence on firewood, cutting waste, and promoting healthier, more sustainable lifestyles.💚 What makes this initiative powerful is its ripple effect: girls share their learning with families, schools, and neighbourhoods, multiplying the impact far beyond the initial trainings. They are not just participants in climate action—they are educators, innovators, and advocates shaping the future of their communities.✌️💪🌍 From building resilience against deforestation and food insecurity to fostering environmental stewardship, these young leaders are proving that when girls lead, entire communities move closer to a sustainable future.🌲🌳 #YouthLeadChange #GYMActionWeek #YouthInAction #WAGGGSImpact #GirlsforClimate @gymobilization

📢In Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland provinces, the “Greener Mindsets, Greener Future” project is putting girls at the heart of climate action. 🌍🍃 With over 2,875 people reached so far, Girl Guides are transforming schools and communities through tree planting, clean-up drives, recycling campaigns, and menstrual health workshops that link gender equality with sustainability. 🌱✨ By training young leaders and teachers, the project is building a new generation of climate advocates who are proving that when girls lead, families, schools, and communities grow greener and more resilient.💪🌏 #SmallActBigImpact #ZimbabweClimateAction #GirlsLeadGreen #GYMActionWeek #YouthInAction #WAGGGSImpact @girlguidesZim @gymobilization

🔉In Costa Rica’s coastal communities, Ruta del Océano is empowering youth to become ocean guardians. 🌊🌍 From marine conservation workshops reaching 159 participants to beach clean-ups, turtle protection support, and 20 planned ecotourism signs, the project blends education, community action, and partnerships to protect biodiversity.🌿🍃🌎 With rural and historically excluded youth at the forefront, local alliances are strengthening, and a lasting network for marine conservation is taking shape—aiming to engage 1,000 people by November 2025.😍❣️ #YouthForOceans #MarineConservation #CostaRica #WAGGGSImpact #GYMActionWeek @gymobilization

📢Pathway to Potential is transforming marginalised communities by strengthening girls’ education and mental well-being. From February to April 2025, 200 girls engaged in workshops on stress relief, self-expression, and life skills paired with Zumba, sports, and a brand-new 600-book library to inspire lifelong learning.❣️🫶🩵 Teachers received training in inclusive, emotionally aware methods, while parents joined storytelling and support sessions to create nurturing homes.💪✨ With volunteers leading awareness campaigns, child protection dialogues, and community-wide engagement, this initiative is building resilience, confidence, and a culture that champions every girl’s right to learn and thrive.💫🤩 Learn more about this by watching this video diary➡️youtu.be/U_gzNx0yINg #GirlsEducation #MentalWellbeing #PathwayToPotential #YouthInAction #GYMActionWeek #WAGGGSImpact

In Burundi, the Eco-Education project is turning classrooms into hubs for climate action. Led by 10 young Girl Guides, it has already reached 740 students across 7 schools with hands-on training in waste management, composting, and tree planting—on track to engage 1,500 students in 13 schools by October 2025. 🌿🍃 Through workshops, eco-contests, and youth-led leadership, students are gaining the knowledge, skills, and motivation to protect the planet. 🌍🙌 From changing daily habits to launching school eco-clubs, a new generation of environmental ambassadors is emerging. 💚🌍 #EcoEducation #YouthForClimate #BurundiGreen #WAGGGSImpact #GYMActionWeek @gymobilization @GuidesBurundi

In drought-prone Isingiro District, the Uganda Girl Guides Association is equipping over 3,000 young people—most of them girls and refugees—with climate-smart skills to safeguard their future.❣️🫶 From planting 829 fruit trees and distributing nearly 7,000 shade trees, to launching 3 plastic collection centers, 27 youth climate groups, and 8 model clean energy homes, this youth-led movement is transforming communities.💪 With training, advocacy, and hands-on action, young leaders are proving that when youth lead, resilience grows and change takes root.🌳🌍 #YouthForClimate #GirlsLeadGreen #ClimateResilience #GYMActionWeek #YouthInAction #WAGGGSInAction

Kick for the Planet! 13 Aug 2025 | State House Primary, Nairobi. KGGA Young Leaders host an SDG soccer tourney, plant trees & showcase youth-led climate solutions. 9AM–12:30PM #KickForThePlanet #GYMActionWeek #YouthForSDGs #KGGA #GreenChampions #TreeByTree #YouthInnovation

At Nuestra Cabaña, volunteers, staff & young leaders from Guías México are turning an unused space into a climate-smart garden, a living classroom for sustainable agriculture, climate education, and community-led solutions. 💪 Built by youth and rooted in local action, the garden is growing food, knowledge, and leadership while inspiring SDG-aligned change. 🌍🌐 From hands-on workshops to green innovation, these young women are cultivating resilience and reimagining a more sustainable future for Mexico.🌱☘️ #WAGGGSImpact #YouthForClimate #GirlsLeadGreen #SustainableFuture #GYMActionWeek #YouthInAction

In Tanzania, the Vijana Climate Connect project by @tanzania_girl_guides is breaking barriers by putting young women and youth with disabilities at the forefront of climate action. 🍃💪 From training 20 young women with disabilities and 100 youth leaders, to launching tree nurseries, recycling projects, and school climate clubs in 35 institutions, the project has reached over 8,600 people with inclusive, youth-led solutions. 🌏✨ Through advocacy, mentorship, and hands-on action, these young leaders are proving that climate resilience grows stronger when everyone is included.💪 #InclusiveClimateAction #YouthForClimate #GirlsLeadGreen #YouthInAction #GYMActionWeek #WAGGGSImpact

In Senegal, girls and young women are leading the charge for climate justice through Natal Souniou Deukouway “Making Our Living Environment Pleasant.” 💪 From clean-up campaigns reaching 10,000 people and planting 300 tree seedlings for reforestation to training 89 eco-leaders from rural and urban communities, the Association des Guides du Sénégal is turning environmental threats into opportunities for action. 💚🌴🌍 These young women aren’t waiting for change—they’re reclaiming their environment, inspiring their communities, and shaping a greener, fairer future for Senegal. 🌐 #GirlsForClimate #ClimateJusticeSenegal #YouthLeadChange #GYMActionWeek #YouthInAction #WAGGGSImpact

From planting 300 indigenous trees to training 100 young leaders, the Nigeria Girl Guides Association’s Biodiversity Conservation Project is inspiring a nationwide movement for nature. 💓 Through environmental education, youth-led action, clean-ups, reforestation, and eco-clubs, Girl Guides are protecting ecosystems, reducing plastic waste, and reaching over 4,000 community members with the message that small acts create big change. 🌍🍃🌱 Together with schools, traditional leaders, and partners, we’re building a greener, more resilient Nigeria. 💪 #SmallActBigImpact #BiodiversityNigeria #GirlsLeadGreen #GYMActionWeek #YouthInAction #WAGGGSImpact

From planting 300 indigenous trees to training 100 young leaders, the Nigeria Girl Guides Association’s Biodiversity Conservation Project is inspiring a nationwide movement for nature. 💓 Through environmental education, youth-led action, clean-ups, reforestation, and eco-clubs, Girl Guides are protecting ecosystems, reducing plastic waste, and reaching over 4,000 community members with the message that small acts create big change. 🌍🍃🌱 Together with schools, traditional leaders, and partners, we’re building a greener, more resilient Nigeria. 💪 #SmallActBigImpact #BiodiversityNigeria #GirlsLeadGreen #GYMActionWeek #YouthInAction #WAGGGSImpact

🚀 It’s HERE! 🎉 GYM Action Week is kicking off and we are counting down to a week of bold voices, unstoppable energy, and game-changing youth power! Throughout the week, we will showcase inspiring youth-led projects, powerful stories of change, skill-building tips, global conversations, and actions you can take right now to make a difference. 📌Explore this space for more: padlet.com/WAGGGS/gym-youth-… Get ready for inspiration, connection, and impact! @gymobilization #GYMActionWeek #YouthLeadTheChange #CountdownToImpact