By Caroline Boshoff

This Women’s Month we are asking women how Scouting empowers them to be changemakers in their communities. SCOUTS SA content creator Caroline Boshoff spoke to Angolan Scouter Arminda Helena E de Mario Calupeteca about what Scouting means to her and how as a volunteer she can carry our values into her community.

“I first want to thank God for our lives and Scouting. Being a Scout makes a big difference in our behaviour. It really is different, as we are in different places. Scouting differentiates us as a good woman or a good person according to the ideas and the Laws of Scouting. As a woman carrying these Laws in my life, I have the opportunity to go out in my community in Angola to make a difference and show what we do in Scouting.”

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