Federación Española de Guidismo
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The Federación Española de Guidismo (FEG; Spanish Federation of the Guide Movement) is a federation of several Spanish
Spain
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 Guiding
Girl Guides
A Guide, Girl Guide or Girl Scout is a member of a section of some Guiding organisations who is between the ages of 10 and 14. Age limits are different in each organisation. It is the female-centred equivalent of the Scouts. The term Girl Scout is used in the United States and several East Asian...

 organizations, serving about 1,500 members. It is a member of the Comité de Enlace del Guidismo en España
Comité de Enlace del Guidismo en España
The Comité de Enlace del Guidismo en España is the Spanish national Guiding association. Guiding was introduced to Spain in 1929. The Comité de Enlace del Guidismo en España became a full member of World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1969...

 and thus affiliated to the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts is a global association supporting the female-oriented and female-only Scouting organizations in 145 countries. It was established in 1928 and has its headquarters in London, England. It is the counterpart of the World Organization of the Scout...

.

Member organizations

As of 2008, the FEG had four member organizations serving 16 local Guide troops with about 1,500 individual members:
  • Asociación Guías de Aragón
  • Associació Guiatge Valenciá
  • Escoltes i Guies de Mallorca
  • Euskal Eskaut-Gia Elkartea


Former members of the FEG include:
  • Asociación Guías de Madrid, currently suspended (in dissolution)
  • Asociación Xuvenil Grupo Scout-Guía Vasco da Ponte (formerly Asociación Coeducativa de Escultismo e Guidismo Galego), now integrated in the Federación de Asociaciones de Scouts de España
    Federación de Asociaciones de Scouts de España
    The Federación de Asociaciones de Scouts de España is a Spanish Scout association. It is one of the members of the Federación de Escultismo en España and thus of the World Organization of the Scout Movement...



All current member organizations are coeducational, accepting both boys and girls.

Asociación Guías de Aragón

The Asociación Guías de Aragón (AGA; Guide Association of Aragon) is the regional member organization serving Guide troops in Aragon
Aragon
Aragon is a modern autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon. Located in northeastern Spain, the Aragonese autonomous community comprises three provinces : Huesca, Zaragoza, and Teruel. Its capital is Zaragoza...

. In 2009, it had eight local units.

Its logo shows the traditional colors of Aragon, taken from the Coat of arms of the Crown of Aragon
Coat of arms of the Crown of Aragon
The so-called Bars of Aragon, Royal arms of Aragon, Four Bars, Red Bars, Pales of the House of Barcelona or Coat of arms of the Crown of Aragon, which bear four red paletts on gold background, depicts the familiar coat of the Counts of Barcelona and Kings of Aragon. It differs from the flag because...

, and the World trefoil of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girls Scouts.

Associació Guiatge Valenciá

The Associació Guiatge Valenciá (AGV; Guiding Association of Valencia) serves currently one Guide group in Moncada, Valencia
Moncada, Valencia
Moncada is a municipality in the comarca of Horta Nord in the Valencian Community, Spain.- Place names :On the official writings in Latin Monscatanus was used , from mons , making 'Montcada' the correct original spelling and Moncada a vulgarization of the name...

 with about 60 members.

The association was founded in 1964 in Moncada. Until the early 1970s it grew to 15 groups with about 500 active Guides. Most of these groups merged with Scout groups in the 1970s; the association consisted of four groups in 1976 and lost all but the founding unit in Moncada until 1982. A second unit was started in Bétera
Bétera
Bétera is a municipality in the comarca of Camp de Túria in the Valencian Community, Spain. With 19,491 inhabitants, it is the second most populous town in the Camp de Túria shire , in the second zone of the Valencia metropolitan area....

 in 1995, but dissolved in 2006.

The association's logo shows a stylized trefoil.

Escoltes i Guies de Mallorca

The Escoltes i Guies de Mallorca (EGM; Scouts and Guides of Mallorca) serves two Scout and Guide groups on Majorca.

The organization was founded in 1979 as Escoltes de Mallorca, after a scission of the Roman Catholic Moviment Escolta i Guiatge a Mallorca within the Movimiento Scout Católico
Movimiento Scout Católico
The Movimiento Scout Católico is a Roman Catholic Scouting organization in Spain, under the shelter of the Catholic church, generally at the parish-level. The Movimiento Scout Católico is generally parochially organized and managed, and is a member of the Federación de Escultismo en España....

 in 1975. It became a member of the ESLAK (Coordination of laic
Laïcité
French secularism, in French, laïcité is a concept denoting the absence of religious involvement in government affairs as well as absence of government involvement in religious affairs. French secularism has a long history but the current regime is based on the 1905 French law on the Separation of...

 Scout and Guide Associations
) in 1990 and remained it until ESLAK's dissolution. In 1995 it became a member of the FEG searching international recognition; as a consequence of this it changed its name to Escoltes i Guies de Mallorca.

Euskal Eskaut-Gia Elkartea

The Euskal Eskaut-Gia Elkartea (EEGE; Basque Scout and Guide Association) serves five Scout and Guide groups in the Basque country
Basque Country (autonomous community)
The Basque Country is an autonomous community of northern Spain. It includes the Basque provinces of Álava, Biscay and Gipuzkoa, also called Historical Territories....

 with about 500 members. EEGE became a member of ESLAK in 1994.

Ideals

The member organizations of the FEG share a common Guide law
Scout Law
Since the publication of Scouting for Boys in 1908, all Scouts and Guides around the world have taken a Scout Promise or oath to live up to ideals of the movement, and subscribed to a Scout Law...

 and a common Guide promise
Scout Promise
Since the publication of Scouting for Boys in 1908, all Scouts and Guides around the world have taken a Scout promise or oath to live up to ideals of the movement, and subscribed to a Scout Law. The wording of the Scout Promise and Scout Law have varied slightly over time and from country to...

. While the Guide law may not be altered, the wording of the Guide promise may be changed.

Guide law

  1. La Guía es persona que cumple su palabra y en quien se puede confiar
  2. La Guía es fiel a sus principios.
  3. El deber de la Guía es ser útil y ayudar a las demás personas.
  4. La Guía es amiga de toda persona y hermana de toda Guía Scout.
  5. La Guía es cortés.
  6. La Guía ama, convive y defiende la Naturaleza.
  7. La Guía es democrática.
  8. La Guía es alegre y optimista
  9. La Guía es sencilla y económica.
  10. La Guía trabaja por la libertad, la paz, la igualdad y el respeto a las demás personas.

Guide promise

Me comprometo a hacer cuento de mí dependa para:
  • Ser consecuente con mis creencias,
  • Ser útil a la Comunidad y
  • Vivir de acuerdo a la Ley Guía.

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