The Uganda Girl Guides Association is the national Guiding organization of Uganda.  Founded in 1914, the girls-only organization became a full member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1963.

As a member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS), Uganda Girl Guides Association (UGGA) was inaugurated as a full member of the WAGGGS at the world conference that was held in the United States of America in July 1984.

Guiding in Uganda was started during the colonial times, when Uganda was still under the British rule. Lady foster Smith, a British teacher, then teaching in Kyebambe Girls’ School in Fort Portal – Kabarole district, Western Uganda, (at the foot of Mt. Rwenzori), the highest mountain in Uganda) started guiding.

In 1946, the King of Buganda the biggest ethnic group in Uganda, realized and appreciated the work of the Girl Guides Association and he gave them land; forty acres of land to the Association and gave them land; forty acres of land to the Association, to enable training of more Girl Guides and carry out other activities. This is found in Wakiso District, eight (8) miles/ fifteen (15) km from Kampala at Busabala on the shores of Lake Victoria. Lake Victoria is the second largest lake in the world following Lake Superior in America.

In 1956, Lady Olave Baden Powell visited Uganda Girl Guides Association and a Foundation stone for the Baden Powell House which accommodates both the Scouts and Guides Headquarters. We are proud to be the only country and Association in Africa to be visited twice by lady Olave Baden Powell; respectively in 1956 and 1967.

Guiding in Uganda was started in 1914 and was officially registered by the Act of parliament (The Royal Charter Act) 147 volumes 5 on the 23rd March 1922 with the ordinances of 23 of 1934 S2 – S41 – a movement named “The Uganda Girl Guides Association.”

The ministry of Education, Sports, Science and Technology, is our “mother ministry”, (for in-school Guides).