A Girl Scout is Helpful

“HELP!” We always use this word when we are lost, when we are new, and when we are in trouble. There is no limit to using this word each day.

Let’s use it the other way around…

“HELP…” We can always help people when they are lost, when they are new, and when they are in trouble. Can we also do it without limit?

These are my thoughts:

Some people say that the true essence of helping people is in giving without expecting anything in return. Can we really give without expecting in return? I doubt it. Human nature tells us that we want to have something back when we give out something. It is somewhat in our mind, the hope of getting something in return. But the acknowledgment of people to what we have done is actually enough as a reward for us.

Helping is synonymous to giving. It is because when you help, you are giving away a part of yourself to others. It’s the noblest act you can offer to the needy. But in this cruel world, you cannot always have the role of a giver. I just thought that there must be limitations when you give.

It’s been a month since I started working here in the Girl Scouts of the Philippines (GSP) as a student trainee. I still don’t know everything about the organization, but I know some of the essential things about the organization.

The GSP Mission Statement:

“To help girls and young women realize the ideals of womanhood and prepare themselves for their responsibilities in the home, the nation, and the world community.”

It is important to have a mission in any organization. This serves as the beacon light for the organization to focus on what it wants and needs to do.

Who would ever thought of making an organization with this kind of mission? How did they come up with this mission?

This is why GSP is different. The Founder herself, Josefa Llanes Escoda, made this organization so selflessly, thinking about the girls and young women of future generations to be guided to their future development as a whole.

Josefa Llanes Escoda founded The Girl Scouts of the Philippines in 1940.

The GSP is at its own peak. This organization has made an impact on the world by providing programs and activities that help the girls and young women to become independent and to have a positive outlook in life.

In GSP, I realized that what I initially thought about “GIVING AND EXPECTING SOMETHING IN RETURN” was a myth. We are human beings and we can give selflessly if we want to—without limit.

I salute the people who are behind the organization believing in GSP’s mission. HELP, we can always do it freely for everyone. GSP believes in this. GSP works with this mission. It is also the third Girl Scout Law that every Girl Scouts live with—“A Girl Scout is helpful.”

Girl Scouts pack goods during the relief operation for Typhoon Yolanda victims to give new hopes to the affected ones.

By: Rebilyn R. Quiroz, GSP Communications Division Intern