Juliette Low World Friendship Fund Story

Actions as the story is read

As the story is read, all girls should perform the following actions at the appropriate times.
On the word WORLD, stand up and spin around once.
On the words JULIETTE LOW, join hands with persons on right and left.
On the words GIRL SCOUT, GIRL SCOUTING, or GIRL GUIDING, give a big smile and clap.

(Practice motions first so everyone understands what to do.)

The Story

Once upon a time there was a lady whose name was JULIETTE LOW. She became interested in GIRL SCOUTING through her friends Lord and Lady Baden-Powell when she visited them in England. They started Boy Scouting and GIRL GUIDING there.

JULIETTE LOW thought GIRL SCOUTING was a wonderful idea. When she returned to America, she decided to start a GIRL SCOUT troop. So, on March 12, 1912, in her home town, Savannah, Georgia, JULIETTE LOW started the first GIRL SCOUT troop in this part of the WORLD.

After that she traveled all over our country, helping to start more GIRL SCOUT troops. JULIETTE LOW believed GIRL SCOUTING was such a fine thing that she wanted to see GIRL SCOUT troops all over the WORLD. She knew that GIRL SCOUTING would help toward WORLD peace and goodwill.

After JULIETTE LOW died in 1927, her friends decided that the greatest tribute that could be paid to such a charming lady would be to continue working toward the realization of her dream of WORLD friendship. A memorial fund was started. It is called the JULIETTE LOW WORLD Friendship Fund. Each year, all GIRL SCOUTS in the United States are given the opportunity to bring money for this fund, which helps GIRL SCOUTING all over the WORLD.

When you GIRL SCOUTS drop money into your JULIETTE LOW WORLD Friendship Fund box, you can imagine the far places of the WORLD to which this money will travel and the ways it will help GIRL SCOUTS. Maybe your money will help buy a GIRL SCOUT uniform for a girl in Belgium who can't afford one. Maybe your money will help send some older GIRL SCOUTS from our country to Our Chalet, an international camp in Switzerland, where GIRL SCOUTS from all over the WORLD get together to learn more about each other. Or maybe you will be helping, with your money, to start new GIRL SCOUT troops in other countries.

No one knows to what parts of the WORLD this money may travel. No one knows the way in which it will one day come back to us in new friends. But we all know that as we give our money to the JULIETTE LOW WORLD Friendship Fund, we are helping to spread GIRL SCOUTING around the WORLD.