Of this activity:

- Learn simple, low-cost manual skills which will be useful for the future.
- Reflect on small services which can be done in order to improve the quality of life.
- Learn to value simple but important things.

Intermediate objectives:

- Show interest in increasing knowledge of things going on.
- Capable of expressing their own opinion on situations.

What do I need?

- Artistic centres in different areas.
- Previous contact with community to be visited.
- Cheap travel fares.

Where?
- 1st stage in patrol headquarters. 2nd in a place where there are a lot of people

How long does it last?
- 2 or 3 meetings depending on each country.

Who participates?
- Rangers

1st Meeting:
The whole company meets together. The guider gives each girl 5 different-coloured cards. She then reads or tells "The history of the good deed". A discussion is then held on the content, especially on the value of small, selfless gestures for others. From this discussion each guide thinks of 5 ongoing or spontaneous good gestures or deeds which she shares within the company. They then write each one on a circle and stick it on to a big heart drawn on the card. The circles will show how the heart can be filled with "our consideration for others". When everyone has finished, the guider points out those deeds that can be used most practically in the community or with the public. She can also use this opportunity to praise guides who normally do not stand out in other activities.

(Types of gestures or good deeds can be divided into groups (those that are of direct benefit to someone: helping someone with their shopping, helping someone up who has fallen, picking up something that has fallen, serving a customer cheerfully and politely, sharing something with someone else, making someone else happy, helping someone with problems etc; and indirectly (for the environment): keeping rubbish to dispose of later, picking up and binning rubbish, looking after a dry or uncared for tree, protecting an animal etc).

The Guider then encourages the girls to recognize and encourage these gestures in others and asks them to identify these small acts of service in the community by the next meeting. With this aim, and to encouarge "people who do good deeds" she will make congratulations cards, using one or several of the techniques explained in Appendix 2. Each guide prepares 10 different cards with messages such as "Congratulations, your actions have made the world a happier place!", "Bravo! You have have contributed a grain of sand towards our planet", "Well done! The world needs more people like you", "Your actions have made our world a better place - Thanks!". etc.

When the cards have been finished and the meeting has come to an end, the Company Council will organize the next meeting, particularly deciding on where the patrol will go and who will be accompanying them.

2nd Meeting:
The whole company meets. The guide proposes a long list of ideas on small gestures and good deeds which can be practically done in public. She again encourages the guides to congratulate those who have done these.

They are then organized by patrol into pairs. Each girl is given a survey form (Appendix 3) on which she will choose 10 gestures or good deeds. After noting each one, she will give one of the 10 cards to the person who made the gesture or did a good deed, explaining why she gave it.

When this is over, they will meet with their patrol and return to the premises. There they will compare the information gathered in the surveys and will jointly anwer the following questions:

- How did you feel when you gave out the cards?
- How did people react when you gave them?
- What things made the activity difficult?
- Was it hard to find good deeds or behaviour? If yes, why?
- What good deed will you do because of this activity?
- What attitutude, situation or behaviour did you notice most? How will it influence you from now on?

Finally, each patrol will evaluate the activity.

- Safe places should be chosen for girls to do their surveys, if possible close to the premises. However, they area will have to have quite a lot of people so as not to spoil the activity.

- Each patrol will organize its pairs so as not to all be in the same area.

- The guiders assigned to each patrol should be prepared to oversee the activity and re-direct if necessary.

- Each patrol evaluates its own level of participation and commitment to the activity.

- The local board evaluates the level of success in the activity objectives and the participation of patrol members.

- The Guiders team, by means of direct observation, evaluates the work of the patrols and of each guide with regard to depth of reflection and the success rate of intermediate objectives.

Title of Project:

Country: Chile

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Suggestions:

The activity is important and fundamental, because thanks to your comments, suggestions and experiences the "B-A-U-L" will go from strength to strength and you will have more activities and options.

To achieve this, each time you complete an activity please let us know how it went. Send a photocopy of this page of your National Association's B-A-U-L with all the information.

Many thanks for your cooperation.

Original idea: Chile
Graphic design:
Websonicos - Ideas Nuevas S. de R. L.
Hecho en Honduras, Centro America
Editing: Western Hemisphere B-A-U-L (WH Trunk)

APPENDIX TO:
LET'S REWARD SOMEONE!
Nº 1

THE HISTORY OF THE GOOD DEED

How the Scout Movement began in the USA is one of the best examples of the importance of how it is not how big a good deed is, it is the just the fact of doing it, whether big or small.

Our story took place in the Autumn of 1909. For the whole day, the city of London had been covered by a thick fog. It had spread all over the city, stopping practically all traffic and business in the British captial.

An american editor, William D Boyce from Chicago, Illinois had had difficulties in finding the address of an office in the city centre. He had stopped beneath a streetlight to get his bearings when out of the shadows a boy approached him.

"Can I help you sir?" said the boy
"Why, yes of course!" replied Boyce. "I would be very grateful if you could tell me how to get to this address".
"I can take you there" said the boy and brought Boyce to the address.

When they arrived the American put his hand into his pocket to give the boy a tip but before he had the chance to offer it, the boy said "No thank you sir. I am a Scout and Scouts are not rewarded for helping others".

"A Scout? What is that?" asked Boyce.
"Haven't you heard of Baden-Powell's Scouts, sir?"
"No, not a word. Please tell me about them" he asked.

The boy then told the visiting American about himself and his fellow Scouts. Boyce was so interested that he asked the boy to wait until he had finished his business and then take him to the headquarters of the British Scouts. When they arrived the boy disappeared.

In the central offices Boyce met Baden-Powell, the famous British General who had founded the Scout Movement two years previously in England. Boyce was so impressed with what B-P had told him about Scouting he decided to bring the idea back to his own country.

As a result, in February 1910 William D Boyce and a group of distinguished personalities interested in the welfare of young people, founded the Scout Association of the USA.

What happened to the boy? Noone knows and no more was heard about him. However, he should never be forgotten, since the Good Deed done for a stranger turned into a Good Deed for millions of American boys. We never know where the results of our actions will lead.

APPENDIX TO:
LET'S REWARD SOMEONE!
Nº 2

Survery of small/large deeds done in the community

· Directly (to assist a person);
. Indirectly (to help the environment)